DefenceTalkA leading U.S.-based foreign policy journal says the White House has quietly suspended the transfer of cluster bombs to ally Saudi Arabia, in response to the Sunni kingdom’s aerial war against Shi’ite rebels in Yemen. Foreign Policy magazine, in a news story published Friday, quoted an unnamed senior U.S. official as saying a hold was […]https://www.defencetalk.com/report-white-house-suspends-cluster-bomb-transfers-to-saudi-arabia-67548/

DefenceTalkHuman Rights Watch on Sunday accused Russia of being behind the use of new advanced cluster munitions in Syria, by dropping them from its warplanes or supplying them to the Damascus regime. The New York-based group said that photographs it obtained showed that the cluster munitions were dropped on Kafr Halab, a village southwest of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-accused-over-use-of-new-cluster-bombs-in-syria-65595/

DefenceTalkThe Saudi-led coalition bombing rebels in Yemen has been using US-supplied cluster munitions in its air campaign, Human Rights Watch said Sunday, warning of the long-term dangers to civilians. The widely banned bombs contain dozens of submunitions, which sometimes do not explode, becoming de facto landmines that can kill or maim long after they were […]https://www.defencetalk.com/saudi-led-coalition-using-cluster-bombs-in-yemen-64103/

DefenceTalkInvestment in cluster bomb producers fell this year after a US defence contractor stopped making the weapons, but major financial firms continued to back the trade, an NGO said Thursday. The amount of money invested in the seven companies that still make the indiscriminate weapons tumbled to $24 billion (17 billion euros) from $43 billion, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/financial-groups-pour-billions-into-cluster-bomb-trade-ngo-49927/