Negotiating a sustainable compromise with Iran is not getting any easier, and this delay might not yield the desired result of bringing Tehran's nuclear programme under stringent limits, says Claude Smadja

The time is over when United States President Barack Obama thought he could afford to make a joke about the ISIS.

Xi Jinping has accumulated great power, but he faces trials that are just as great, says Claude Smadja.

The deal with Iran does not address any of the major issues thrown up by Tehran's ambitions, says Claude Smadja.