SIPRI, the global security research think tank, reported that military spending surged globally, with the Middle East seeing ...

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Trump tells Congress the U.S. is conducting strikes against Houthis in Yemen, aiming to stop attacks on American forces and ...

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The world's 15 largest spenders all increased their military expenditure in 2024, with growth especially rapid in Europe and ...

In some areas, the administration has followed through. The US has begun a major drawdown of US troops in Syria, following ...

The global liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) market is facing an upheaval as high tariffs on U.S. imports force Chinese buyers to ...

Even with this track record, the news last month that aides of Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, had been ...

There was an “unprecedented” increase in global military spending in 2024, the steepest rise since the end of the Cold War, ...

Israel has troops in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. It’s vowed to demilitarize huge swaths of all three – backed by an ...

Tensions in the Middle East have escalated dramatically following a massive exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah. In the early hours of August 25, 2024, Israel launched preemptive airstrikes ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...