{"id":20733,"date":"2026-05-02T06:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=20733"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:15:37","slug":"u-s-approves-8-6-billion-arms-sales-to-israel-qatar-kuwait-and-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/05\/02\/u-s-approves-8-6-billion-arms-sales-to-israel-qatar-kuwait-and-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. approves $8.6 billion arms sales to Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, and UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The U.S. Department of State has approved arms sales worth $8.6 billion to four key Middle Eastern allies, Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to The Times of Israel, citing an official statement, the package includes a range of defense systems and equipment. Qatar is set to receive Patriot air and missile defense system support valued at $4.1 billion, along with Advanced Precision Kill Weapon Systems (APKWS) worth $992.4 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kuwait will receive an integrated battle command system valued at $2.5 billion, while Israel has been approved to purchase APKWS systems worth $992.4 million. The UAE will receive similar APKWS equipment valued at $147.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also noted that Washington has warned European allies, including the United Kingdom, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia, of potential delays in arms deliveries due to depleted stockpiles following the recent conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The approval comes as these Middle Eastern allies have reportedly used significant portions of their military stockpiles during the 40-day conflict involving the United States and Israel against Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The U.S. Department of State has approved arms sales worth $8.6 billion to four key Middle Eastern allies, Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. According to The Times of Israel, citing an official statement, the package includes a range of defense systems and equipment. Qatar is set to receive Patriot air and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20735,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733\/revisions\/20735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}