Claims that a popular toy collectible was actually inspired by a demon from ancient folklore circulated online in July 2025.

St. Michael’s Sword” is a line that follows the locations of seven sanctuaries dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel from ...

As a result, geopolitical tensions in the Middle East today tend to provoke far milder reactions in the global oil market, especially when Western-aligned oil exporters remain unaffected.

President: Joseph Aoun. One of the Middle East’s democracies, Lebanon is economically poor and militarily weak, and has a higher number of refugees per capita than any country in the world.

Explore more Iran Leaders Opinion Middle East War in the Middle East United States This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “How to win the peace” ...

Donald Trump has stumbled into a position of extraordinary power in the Middle East.

In the past 48 hours, the Middle East has seen an unprecedented US airstrike on Iran with its most powerful non-nuclear weapons, an Iranian retaliatory strike on the largest US air base in the ...

Did Trump just bring peace to the Middle East? After much hemming and hawing, President Trump joined the Israeli attack on Iran over the weekend.

The bombing of Iran's main nuclear sites by the US marks the triumph of Israel, which in just a few months has become the sheriff of the Middle East, writes Le Monde columnist Gilles Paris. On ...

In the Middle East, the Iranian regime is the Islamist phenomenon’s last lifeline. That lifeline is now much weaker. Were the regime to fall, Middle Eastern Islamism as we know it would fall as ...