A month ago was informed through a US official involved in the arms transfers that a package of precision-guided missile technology for Saudi Arabia, valued around $300 million, and a $4 billion deal to provide F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain were ready for clearance from the White House.

Now, the reports that the State Department has approved a resumption of weapons sales that critics have linked to , a potential sign of reinvigorated U.S. support for the kingdom’s involvement in its neighbors ongoing civil war.

During his final months in office, former president Barack Obama had blocked the transfer of precision munitions to Riyadh because of the outcry over large-scale civilian casualties resulting from Saudi airstrikes in Yemen.

The Pentagon has been providing logistics and surveillance support to Saudi Arabia in its military aggression against Yemen, the kingdom’s impoverished southern neighbor, which has killed at least 11,400 civilians since its onset in March 2015, according to a latest tally by a Yemeni monitoring group.



