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| White House approves $1 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, including 6,500+ missiles | White House approves $1 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, including 6,500+ missiles |
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| The US is planning to sell a billion dollars-worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, including some $670 million-worth of anti-tank missiles. The Gulf State is waging a war on Yemen, in which 10,000 civilians have so far died. | |
| According to the State Department, Saudi Arabia applied to buy over 6,500 TOW 2B anti-tank missiles on Thursday. | |
| The sale would safeguard the security “of a friendly country which has been, and continues to be, an important force for political stability and economic growth in the Middle East," the State Department said in a statement. | |
| The US is a major supplier of arms to Saudi Arabia. | |
| In his meeting with visiting Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman on Wednesday, President Donald Trump boasted of an imminent multi-billion-dollar sale of arms to the kingdom. | |
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