... dominant population of the Middle East, Sunni Arabs, were split among numerous states. These widespread separations led to minority ethnic groups ruling Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Bahrain, often repressively (The Map that Ruined the Middle East). By splitting the Middle East into many different sections, Britain also went against a promise of independence made to the Arabs in the 1910s (Border Lines ... ...

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... the war ended. When the peace conference at Versailles ended, the British renegged on their promise to Faisals father for his own state. Instead the British and French rolled out a map and divided up the empire into Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. To form Iraq, Britain squeezed together three mutually hostile regions: Kurdish tribal lands: the Sunni Muslim region around Baghdad ... ...

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