"This led Sweden to build up a very powerful arms industry, but one geared to its specific needs," said Per Olsson, a specialist in defense economics with the Swedish Defense Research Agency.

Sweden is the world's 12th biggest arms exporter, with arms companies like SAAB responsible for thousands of jobs. Sweden, though proud of its neutral status, exported arms worth 11.9 billion ...

Impatient to see Sweden admitted as a member of NATO and as the days tick down to the alliance’s summit next month in Lithuania, a senior Republican senator blocked an arms sale to Hungary ...

Figures from 2017 by The Small Arms Survey, a Swiss-based research institute, showed there were about 2.3 million guns held by civilians in Sweden. That is around 23 guns per 100 people compared ...

Four-month-old Princess Ines of Sweden delights royal fans. The daughter of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia appears in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European countries need to strengthen their defence ties in Nato without the US and invest more in their ...

An office of Israeli military technology firm Elbit Systems in Gothenburg was the target of a shooting Thursday, according to media, with Swedish police saying there were no injuries, in the ...

Karl Kjellin, a Swedish activist, accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and denounced Western leaders for continuing arms supplies. Arguing that both major US political parties support ...

Sen. Jim Risch (Idaho), the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says he will hold up a $735 million arms sale to Hungary until it drops its opposition to Sweden ...