US weapons sale to Saudi Arabia
Warring parties in Yemen extend truce by two months
The agreement reached on August 2 will extend the UN-mediated truce that was first put into effect in April, with the eventual goal of a peace agreement
US takes a U-turn, approves $650 million weapons sales to Saudi Arabia
The sale of air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia will mark a U-turn in US president Joe Biden’s foreign policy declared in the first week of February. At that point, he had promised to end the US role in the war in Yemen and the sale of all offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia
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