History is accelerating in Iran, where the uprising is spreading despite a bloody crackdown. Western diplomatic and security sources report the flight abroad of prominent regime figures, including the Minister of Defense and the deputy commander of the Quds Force, triggering major dysfunctions and a cascade of defections within the military and security apparatus.

Relations between India and the United States have sharply deteriorated following tariffs imposed by Trump on Indian exports to the US. Intended to pressure India into halting oil purchases from Russia, the tariffs backfired. They drove New Delhi closer not only to Moscow, but also—an unprecedented shift—to Beijing, long regarded as a traditional rival.

In a deafening silence—the silence of great ideas when they withdraw from the clamor of the world—the Egyptian philosopher Mourad Wahba passed away at the age of 100, leaving behind a void that cannot be measured by the number of books published, but by the rarity of Arab voices capable, like his, of going against the grain of dominant thought....

How can the number of Muslim Brothers in France be measured, when members of this Islamist Brotherhood are prohibited from publicly claiming affiliation with it? In the name of the principle of taqiyya (duplicity), active members of Brotherhood organisations are instructed to lie if they are questioned about their membership of the Brotherhood. A survey that merely asked them directly...

A senior officer in the Troupes de marine (French Marine Troops), Raphaël Chauvancy is a lecturer at the École de Guerre Économique (School of Economic Warfare). An expert in modern conflicts and a specialist in strategic influence, he published in February “Winning Without Violence: A Handbook of Influence and Information Warfare” (VA Editions). There he details the influence strategies used...

Beneath the legendary glass dome of the Grand Palais, transformed into a shimmering galaxy of stars and dreams, Franco-Belgian designer Matthieu Blazy wrote a new chapter in the story of Chanel. For his first collection as the house’s creative director, unveiled during Paris Fashion Week, Blazy delivered a show of striking contrasts — between heritage and daring, between the memory...

At the end of a selection marked by a majority of films dealing with the duality of suspicion / guilt, the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival went to ‘‘Anatomy of a Fall’’, a French family drama which dissects the mechanisms of suspicion (and the resulting guilt) weighing on a wife after the (accidental?) defenestration of her husband....

Cartographie de l’implantation des réseaux Frères musulmans dans les pays européens.