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  • Biden Moves Forward on $1 Billion in New Arms for Israel

    The Biden administration notified Congress on Tuesday that it was moving forward with more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel, U.S. and congressional officials said, a massive arms package less than a week after the White House paused a shipment of bombs over a planned Israeli assault on Rafah.

  • Jordan foils arms plot as kingdom caught in Iran-Israel shadow war

    Jordan has foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons into the U.S.-allied kingdom to help opponents of the ruling monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, according to two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter.
    The weapons were sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to a cell of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan that has links to the military wing of Palestinian group Hamas, the people told Reuters. The cache was seized when members of the cell, Jordanians of Palestinian descent, were arrested in late March, they said.

  • Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt among world’s top arms importers: SIPRI

    Saudi Arabia was the second-largest arms importer in the world from 2019 to 2023, accounting for 8.4% of imports, while Qatar was third with 7.6%. India was the largest importer with a 9.8% global market share, according to SIPRI’s data. Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/03/saudi-arabia-qatar-egypt-among-worlds-top-arms-importers-sipri#ixzz8UGU8gXJ5

  • Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt among world’s top arms importers: SIPRI

    Gulf states and Egypt accounted for more than 25% of global arms sales in the past four years, according to a report released Monday. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's (SIPRI) quadrennial report on international arms transfers details the import and export of weapons around the world between 2019 and 2023.

  • Iran’s Rise as Global Arms Supplier Vexes U.S. and Its Allies

    Iran’s arms industry is growing rapidly, turning the country into a large-scale exporter of low-cost, high-tech weapons whose clients are vexing the U.S. and its partners in the Middle East, Ukraine and beyond. The transformation of the industry, accelerated by Russia’s 2022 purchase of thousands of drones that altered the battlefield in Ukraine, has helped Tehran scale up its support of militia allies in Middle East conflicts that have intensified alongside Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. One of Iran’s top arms exports, a Shahed suicide drone, designed to carry explosives and crash into its target, was used to kill three American servicemembers in Jordan in an attack by an Iraqi militia group on Jan. 28, U.S. officials said.

  • 2023 sees new record for US government-to-government arms exports, boosted by Ukraine aid

    Sales of arms and defense gear by the U.S. government to other governments reached $80.9 billion in fiscal 2023, jumping nearly 56% from the previous year to set a new record, the State Department said Monday. The three-year rolling average for Foreign Military Sales exports rose to $55.9 billion for fiscal years 2021 to 2023, up 21.9% from last year’s mark. Notable examples of government-to-government FMS sales notified to Congress in fiscal 2023 include deals with Poland, Germany, Australia, Canada, and others.

  • Towns Empty and Farms Languish as War Stalks Israeli-Lebanese Border

    The border between Israel and Lebanon has become a landscape of abandoned towns and neglected farms as escalating tensions and tit-for-tat strikes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants have displaced more than 150,000 people in both countries.

    Prospects for an end to the cross-border hostilities have grown only dimmer since the assassination on Tuesday of a senior Hamas leader in a suburb of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, fed growing fears of a wider war. The strike has been widely ascribed to Israel.

  • New Bills Aim To Block U.S. Arms Sales To Saudi Arabia, Uae Amid Concerns Of Regional Conflict

    REP. ILHAN OMAR is introducing two pieces of legislation to block U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, citing atrocities committed by both countries. The U.S. made high-profile sales to both countries in December, shoring up their offensive capabilities amid the possibility of a regional war and a growing risk of confrontation with Yemen’s Houthis.

  • Saudi Crown Prince calls on all countries to stop arms exports to Israel

    Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urged all nations during an extraordinary BRICS summit on Tuesday to cease weapon exports to Israel.

    South Africa is hosting a virtual meeting of BRICS -- a group of major emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- aimed at drawing up a common response to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

  • Saudi Arabia Could Hold the Key to Seoul’s Arms Ambitions

    A likely weapons deal between Riyadh and Seoul could help South Korea realize its ambition to be a major player in the global defense market. The importance of such an agreement cannot be understated: Saudi Arabia is the world’s second-largest importer of major arms, and is shopping around just as the Asian supplier is looking to sell more-advanced weaponry.