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Newly disclosed "Ghost" drones that are part of America's latest arms package for Ukraine were developed by the U.S. Air Force for attacking targets and are destroyed after a single use, the Pentagon said on Thursday (April 21).

Russia has started to reposition less than 20% of the forces arrayed around Ukraine's capital Kyiv, the Pentagon said on Wednesday (March 30), but cautioned Russia was expected to refit and resupply them for redeployment, and not bring the forces home.

Russia has started moving very small numbers of troops away from positions around Ukraine's capital Kyiv, the Pentagon said on Tuesday (March 29), adding it was more of a repositioning than a retreat or a withdrawal from the war.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on March 17 in Bratislava, Slovakia said enforcing a no-fly zone in Ukraine would mean 'that you're in a conflict with Russia' and the U.S. position remained not to do that.

Hypersonic weapons that can fly five times the speed of sound will add $21.5 billion to the Navys budget and $7 billion to the Armys in coming years, according to an estimate compiled by the Pentagons independent cost assessment office.

The top U.S. military official said it is "possible" the United States will coordinate with the Taliban in the fight against the Islamic State, although he declined to make predictions about potential collaboration with Afghanistans new rulers, who could announce a new government as early as Thursday.

The strike came after a suicide bombing outside Kabul airport on Thursday which killed 13 U.S. service members and some 170 Afghans. ISIS-K had claimed responsibility for the attack.

U.S. officials believe ISIS-K, a local affiliate of the Islamic State, was likely behind the airport attack but are still working to confirm the terror groups involvement, CNN reported.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that 68 percent of all active-duty troops were fully vaccinated, and "just over 76 percent have at least one dose."

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden said Sunday that the U.S. military is "executing a plan" to move stranded American citizens to the Kabul airport in greater numbers, including through an expansion of a safe zone around the facility and by creating conduits for people to access the compound "safely and effectively."

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Saturday strongly hinted that U.S. troops may stage further operations outside the Kabul airport to help evacuate stranded American citizens and Afghans who aided the war effort, as the threat of violence in the capital grows amid the return of the Talibans top political leader and increased concern about potential attacks by the Islamic State.

"We are certainly concerned by the speed with which the Taliban has been moving," Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said. "Its deeply concerning."