This is the second time this month that the Biden administration has used an emergency authority that allows it to bypass traditional congressional review for the sale.
The US Army announced Tuesday that it had attacked Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed faction in Iraq, after a spate of recent attacks against US forces in Iraq and Syria. Rina Bassist, Ezgi Akin, Beatrice Farhat, Elizabeth Hagedorn, Adam Lucente, Jack Dutton, Jared Szuba and Al-Monitor’s contributors on the ground in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel contributed to this blog.