{"id":223281,"date":"2026-05-02T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223281"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:54:31","slug":"us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223281","title":{"rendered":"US approves military sales of over $8.6 billion to Middle East allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. State Department said on Friday it was approving military sales worth a total of over $8.6 billion to Middle Eastern allies Israel, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.The announcement comes as the U.S. and Israel&#8217;s war against Iran marked nine weeks since its start and more than three weeks since a fragile ceasefire in the Iran war came into effect&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2026\/05\/us-approves-military-sales-over-86-billion-middle-east-allies\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. State Department said on Friday it was approving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kwt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223281-us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies.JPG",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223281-us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223281-us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223281-us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies-768x402.jpg",640,335,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223281-us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies-1024x536.jpg",640,335,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223281-us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies.JPG",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223281-us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies.JPG",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223281-us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223281-us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223281-us-approves-military-sales-of-over-8-6-billion-to-middle-east-allies-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=30\" rel=\"category\">Kuwait<\/a>","tag_info":"Kuwait","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}