SIPRI

Russia's growing military expenditure amid economic sanctions

Despite facing heavy economic sanctions from the West, Russia's financial expenditure on the military continues to grow as it persists in strengthening its foothold in the Ukrainian conflict.

|ByMAARIV
Service members of pro-Russian troops walk across a road before the expected departure of Ukrainian soldiers, who surrendered at the besieged Azovstal steel mill, in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in Mariupol, Ukraine May 19, 2022.
A BOY CARRIES a mattress amid the debris of a house destroyed during Israeli-Palestinian fighting, in Gaza City on Wednesday.

SIPRI: Number of fatalities caused by armed conflict falls in 2020

Last year saw the lowest number of deaths in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in over a decade

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM
An unarmed AGM-86B Air-Launched Cruise Missile is released from a B-52H Stratofortress over the Utah Test and Training Range during a Nuclear Weapons System Evaluation Program sortie, 80miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., September 22, 2014. Picture taken September 22, 2014.

SIPRI: Israel has close to 100 nuclear warheads

Report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) says there’s an estimated 13,865 nuclear weapons in the hands of nine states.

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM