U.S. Arms Sales to Middle East Ballooned During Yemen War Aishwarya Rakesh 7450
Children attending class on the first day of school damaged by an airstrike in September 2019 (@Human Rights Watch)
Aircraft, missiles & munitions dominate U.S. arms sales to the Middle East which ballooned during 2015-20, coinciding with the war in Yemen.
Sales of military aircraft overwhelmingly dominate U.S. arms sales to Middle Eastern countries followed by missiles and munitions for the 2015-2020 periods.
U.S. military aircraft sales, comprising those by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) and direct commercial sales by arms vendors amounted to $58.223 billion during the period under study while that of missiles and munitions amounted to $25 billion.