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  • U.S. Arms Sales
    U.S. arms makers say sales process improving but still too slow | Reuters

    Many U.S. arms makers have sought to offset declines in American and European defense spending by boosting international sales, but they regularly complain that slow government approvals of deals frustrates some customers and drives them to look at offers from non-U.S companies.

  • Saudi - Iran
    Saudi Arabia says Iran could trigger nuclear arms race

    Prince Mohammad Bin Nawaf Bin Abdul Aziz, Saudi Arabia’s long-serving ambassador to London, says that for many years the kingdom upheld the policy established by the late King Fahd that Riyadh would not pursue a policy of developing nuclear weapons. “Then it became known that Iran was pursuing a policy that could be shifted to a weapons-of-mass-destruction programme,” Prince Mohammad explained in an exclusive interview.

  • UK-Saudi
    Britain urged to end arms trade with Saudi Arabia after blogger ruling

    Campaigners have called for a radical shift in Britain’s relationship with Saudi Arabia, the UK’s biggest arms market, after the Saudi supreme court upheld the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison given to blogger Raif Badawi.

  • Lebanon: Saudi Arms Purchase
    Saudi arms grant to Lebanese army stalled after Hezbollah remarks on Yemen war

    France is expected to deliver 250 combat and transport vehicles, seven Cougar helicopters, three small Corvette warships and a range of surveillance and communications equipment over four years as part of the $3 billion (2.8 billion-euro) modernization program. It is being entirely funded by Saudi Arabia, which is keen to see Lebanon's army defend its borders against jihadist groups, particularly the IS group and al-Nusra Front.

  • Small Arms Survey: Arab Spring
    Small Arms Survey – Small Arms Survey 2015

    The armed violence and political instability associated with the ‘Arab Spring’ have not led to significant changes in the policies or practices of countries exporting small arms and light weapons to the governments of Egypt, Libya, or Syria since 2011, finds the Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the World. The study also reveals that the emergence of Islamic State has convinced many exporters to provide small arms to non-state armed groups in the region, despite heightened risks of weapons diversion and misuse.

  • Canada-Saudi
    Ottawa aims to keep lid on details of Saudi arms deal

    The Canadian government is refusing to make public the assessments it conducts to determine whether Ottawa’s $15-billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia is compatible with foreign policy or poses a risk to the civilian population in a country notorious for human-rights abuses.

  • Canada-Saudi
    Human rights advocates blast arms deal with Saudi Arabia

    Critics say a $15-billion arms deal the Canadian government has brokered to sell fighting vehicles to Saudi Arabia, a country notorious for human-rights abuses, undermines Ottawa’s rationale for refusing to sign a landmark global treaty to regulate the weapons trade.

  • U.S. - GCC Summit
    U.S. experts may travel to Gulf to look at expediting arms sales

    The United States and its allies in the Gulf will discuss ways to expedite weapons sales during high-level meetings in Washington this week, followed by a likely trip to the region by a team of U.S. arms sales experts, U.S. and Gulf officials said on Tuesday.

  • Gulf Military Spending
    Military Spending and Arms Sales in the Gulf

    The summary  data show that the Arab Gulf states have a decisive advantage over Iran in both the size of their recent military spending and the size and quality of their arms transfers and imports of military technology.

  • U.S. Arms
    Sale of U.S. Arms Fuels the Wars of Arab States

    To wage war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is using F-15 fighter jets bought from Boeing. Pilots from the United Arab Emirates are flying Lockheed Martin’s F-16 to bomb both Yemen and Syria. Soon, the Emirates are expected to complete a deal with General Atomics for a fleet of Predator drones to run spying missions in their neighborhood.