Four opinion polls published since Spain's prime minister called a general election for April 28 have predicted widely different outcomes, illustrating how the emergence of new parties, and in particular the far-right Vox, has upset political forecasting. In December, pollsters failed to...

The United Arab Emirates announced Monday it had signed deals worth more than $1.6 billion for the purchase of Patriot missile launchers from US arms giant Raytheon, state media said. The deals, inked on the second day of an international military exhibition in Abu Dhabi, come a day after...

Over the next decade Britain’s military will step up its Arctic deployments in order to deter the Russian threat, according to British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson. The announcement came on Sunday in a special interview with The Telegraph amid Williamson’s visit to Royal Marines...

The United States is lobbying Gulf states to hold off restoring ties with Syria, including the UAE which has moved closer to Damascus to counter the influence of its rival Iran, five sources told Reuters. The opposing approaches are an early test of whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...