The US is continuing to implement a 2008 Pentagon policy directive on cluster munitions, while the Trump administration has yet to indicate its position on addressing concerns over these indiscriminate weapons. According to the campaign's annual monitoring report, the US last used cluster munitions in 2009 and has destroyed a significant portion of its stocks.

Civilians continue to be harmed by daily cluster munition attacks in Aleppo and other opposition-held areas one year after Russia began its joint operation together with the government of Syria.

On August 30, Textron Systems announced it is stopping its production of CBU-105 sensor fuzed weapons, making it the last US manufacturer to cease production of cluster munitions.

A White House decision to suspend future cluster munition transfers to Saudi Arabia should be made permanent and extended to cover all cluster munition transfers.

A Saudi Arabia-led coalition is using recently transferred US-manufactured cluster munitions in civilian areas of Yemen contrary to US export requirements.