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US TO LIFT BAN ON OFFENSIVE WEAPONS SALES TO SAUDI ARABIA

By Humeyra Pamuk, Patricia Zengerle and Steve Holland
August 9, 202411:09 PM GMT+2Updated 8 min ago
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Item 1 of 2 A member of Saudi security forces attends Abdullah's Sword military
drill as a jet flies by in Hafar Al-Batin, near the border with Kuwait
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WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - The Biden administration has decided to lift a ban
on U.S. sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, the State Department said on
Friday, reversing a three-year-old policy to pressure the kingdom to wind down
the Yemen war.
The State Department was lifting its suspension on certain transfers of
air-to-ground munitions to Saudi Arabia, a senior department official confirmed.
"We will consider new transfers on a typical case-by-case basis consistent with
the Conventional Arms Transfer Policy," the official said.
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Reuters was first to report the decision earlier, citing five sources.
The administration briefed Congress this week on its decision to lift the ban, a
congressional aide said. One source said sales could resume as early as next
week. The U.S. government was moving ahead on Friday afternoon with
notifications about a sale, a person briefed on the matter said.
"The Saudis have met their end of the deal, and we are prepared to meet ours," a
senior Biden administration official said.
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Under U.S. law, major international weapons deals must be reviewed by members of
Congress before they are made final. Democratic and Republican lawmakers have
questioned the provision of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia in recent years,
citing issues including the toll on civilians of its campaign in Yemen and a
range of human rights concerns.
But that opposition has softened amid turmoil in the Middle East following
Hamas' deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel and because of changes in the conduct of
the campaign in Yemen.

Since March 2022 - when the Saudis and Houthis entered into a U.N.-led truce -
there have not been any Saudi airstrikes in Yemen and cross-border fire from
Yemen into the kingdom has largely stopped, the administration official said.
"We also note the positive steps that the Saudi Ministry of Defense have taken
over the past three years to substantially improve their civilian harm
mitigation processes, in part thanks to the work of U.S. trainers and advisors,"
the State Department official said.



WARMER SAUDI TIES

Yemen's war is seen as one of several proxy battles between Iran and Saudi
Arabia. The Houthis ousted a Saudi-backed government from Sanaa in late 2014 and
have been at war against a Saudi-led military alliance since 2015, a conflict
that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and left 80% of Yemen's
population dependent on humanitarian aid.
Biden adopted the tougher stance on weapons sales to Saudi Arabia in 2021,
citing the kingdom's campaign against the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen, which
has inflicted heavy civilian casualties.

Ties between the kingdom and the United States have warmed since then, as
Washington has worked more closely with Riyadh in the aftermath of Hamas' Oct. 7
attack to devise a plan for post-war Gaza.
The Biden administration also has been negotiating a defense pact and an
agreement for civil nuclear cooperation with Riyadh as part of a broad deal that
envisions Saudi Arabia normalizing ties with Israel, although that remains an
elusive goal.
The decision comes as the threat level in the region has been heightened since
late last month, with Iran and Lebanon's powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group
vowing to retaliate against Israel after Hamas' political chief Ismail Haniyeh
was killed in Tehran.
The Houthis have emerged as a strong supporter of the Palestinian Islamist group
Hamas in its war against Israel. Earlier this year, they attacked commercial
ships that they said are linked to Israel or bound for Israeli ports.

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Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, Patricia Zengerle and Steve Holland; additional
reporting by Mike Stone; editing by Michelle Nichols and Rod Nickel

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Humeyra Pamuk is a senior foreign policy correspondent based in Washington DC.
She covers the U.S. State Department, regularly traveling with U.S. Secretary of
State. During her 20 years with Reuters, she has had postings in London, Dubai,
Cairo and Turkey, covering everything from the Arab Spring and Syria's civil war
to numerous Turkish elections and the Kurdish insurgency in the southeast. In
2017, she won the Knight-Bagehot fellowship program at Columbia University’s
School of Journalism. She holds a BA in International Relations and an MA on
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Washington-based national security and foreign policy reporter who also has
worked as an editor, Patricia has appeared on NPR, C-Span and other programs,
spoken at the National Press Club and attended the Hoover Institution Media
Roundtable. She is a recipient of the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic
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