The Middle East increased its arms imports by 25 percent while global demand receded from 2016 to 2020, for the first time in more than a decade. Arms imports in the Middle East grew by 25 percent between 2011–15 and 2016–20, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute(SIPRI) report published on Monday. But overall, and for the first time since 2001–2005, the volume of major arms transfers between countries ...