Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt rank among world’s top 10 arms importers: SIPRI
Middle East countries made up more than a fourth of the top 40 global arms importers from 2018 to 2022, according to a new report.
DUBAI — Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt were classified among the top 10 global arms importers from 2018 to 2022, according to a report published Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Arms imports by Middle Eastern and North African countries in those five years were overall 8.8% lower than the previous five-year period from 2013 to 2017, and the United States accounted for 54% of them.
