
A Swedish-based think tank found that international arms transfers increased through 2016 due largely to demand in the Middle East and Asia with the last five year period having the highest period volume since the end of the Cold War.The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a think tank a research institute focused on conflict, the arms trade, and arms control issues, analyzed the volume of transfers of major weapons since 2007 in a report released Monday. It found that…