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Experts say Middle East is largest world market for arms, with huge jump in US military exports to the region
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Saudi Arabia has overtaken India to become the world’s biggest importer of arms in 2014, a study found on Sunday. The figures show that Saudi Arabia now spends more on importing weapons than India, a country whose population is over 40 times larger than that of the Gulf heavyweight. (...) The US has consistently been one of the largest suppliers of weapons to the Gulf heavyweight – US profits from the trade jumped by over 100 percent between 2012 and 2013, ending on an all-time high of over $5.5 billion.
