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Countries in the Middle East are increasingly buying armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially from countries like China and Turkey which are stepping in to fill a gap created by the United States’ strict UAV export controls. The British think-tank Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, recently released a report called “Armed drones in the Middle East region: proliferation and norms in the region”. The 50-page study focuses on the countries that operate or simply possess military UAVs, which are Jordan, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iran and Turkey. The US policy on UAV exports intends to prevent them from falling into hostile hands. Thus, the US decided to stop delivering UAVs to some Middle Eastern countries. To get around this issue, these countries decided to purchase...