A crisis is looming for UNIFIL ahead of a UN Security Council vote to renew its mandate, with the mission under pressure from Israel and the US In early June, unconfirmed Israeli media reports said that Israel was supporting an alleged move by the United States to halt operations of …

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 …