{"id":22902,"date":"2026-07-17T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22902"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:56:48","slug":"us-approves-nearly-2-billion-arms-sale-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22902","title":{"rendered":"US Approves Nearly $2 Billion Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US State Department has approved the sale of advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia worth approximately $1.96 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a news agency, the approval was confirmed in a press release issued by the US State Department on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The department said the proposed arms sale would support US foreign policy and national security objectives.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the agreement would help strengthen the defensive capabilities of Saudi Arabia, a key US ally in the region.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the package includes advanced precision-guided weapon systems along with related military equipment.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details regarding the delivery timeline or other aspects of the deal were immediately disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has approved the sale of advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia worth approximately $1.96 billion. According to a news agency, the approval was confirmed in a press release issued by the US State Department on Wednesday. The department said the proposed arms sale would support US foreign policy and national security objectives. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,37],"tags":[10696,8039,2856,13132,434,2493,6587,2494,9895],"class_list":["post-22902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-world","tag-arms-sale","tag-defense-cooperation","tag-middle-east","tag-precision-guided-weapons","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-us-state-department","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22904,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions\/22904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}