Secure Liberties Newsletter
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Remember Trump’s lame duck $23 billion UAE arms sale? Biden has given it the green light. After conducting a review of the sale of advanced weaponry and aircraft to the United Arab Emirates, the Biden Administration has announced it will go forward with the sale despite serious reservations by civil society and lawmakers over UAE’s human rights record in Yemen and previous transfers of arms to malign groups in the region. The Forum on the Arms Trade has helpfully collected many opposing statements here.
Biden commits to withdrawing troops from Afghanistan …