US to speed up resupply of munitions for Mideast partner nations, official says
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Pentagon is looking into speeding up approval of foreign military sales as allies look to replenish stocks of precision weapons they are using up in campaigns against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq and Houthi rebels in Yemen, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James said Tuesday.
“That’s a key message that I’m going to be taking back to Washington, and it’s one that we are working pretty hard,” she told reporters at the Dubai Airshow.
James said that in her meetings in Dubai, coalition partners have brought up the importance of replacing their inventories of precision-guided munitions.
Partners in the Persian Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, have been conducting multiple airstrikes against the Islamic State as well as fighting the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen has been criticized by human rights groups for killing large numbers of civilians in repeated strikes against urban targets.
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“That’s a key message that I’m going to be taking back to Washington, and it’s one that we are working pretty hard,"
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