There has been increasing speculation in recent days that Syria will soon sign a peace agreement with Israel. The New Arab takes a look at how possible this is. There has been increasing speculation in recent days that Syria will normalise ties with Israel. Uncorroborated reports in Israeli media have …

In a landmark shift, the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have endorsed a new national spending benchmark: 5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) to be invested annually in ‘core defence requirements as well as defence- and security-related spending’ by 2035. Enshrined in a joint declaration …

Two recent essays published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) rekindle interest in a perennial debate about whether covert action, particularly paramilitary operations, and other capabilities related to irregular warfare should be the responsibility of the Central Intelligence …