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White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan traveled to Kyiv on Friday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and announce a new $400 million military assistance package the United States is sending amid the Russian invasion. The new security assistance package includes refurbished T-72 tanks, which is the first time the U.S. is sending tanks to Ukraine, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles and the refurbishment of 250 HAWK surface to air missiles for eventual transfer to Ukraine, according to the White House. Sullivan visited with Zelensky to “underscore the United States’ steadfast support to Ukraine and its people...

CAMP MABRY, Austin, Texas (Sept. 1, 2005) – The number of Texas National Guardsmen in Louisiana for hurricane recovery assistance is now approaching the 1,000 mark.Last night and today, three C-130 Hercules aircraft from the 136th Airlift Wing carried Air National Guard security forces to Naval Air Station Belle Chase near New Orleans. These Airmen, from Air Guard units based in San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth and El Paso, will provide support to civil law enforcement authorities in Louisiana.Task Force 536, consisting primarily of medical professionals, began convoying toward Louis Armstrong Airport, New Orleans, Wednesday. Besides medical support, this joint...

The United States will ask Congress to give Israel $2.22 billion in military assistance in the fiscal year 2005, $60 million more than in 2004, the U.S. State Department said in a statement on Monday. The increase is in line with a 1990s agreement which reduces economic assistance to Israel by $120 million a year while adding $60 million a year to the military component of the package, the largest Washington gives to any country. The statement, issued after talks in Israel last Wednesday and Thursday between senior U.S. and Israeli officials, said the Bush administration was committed to enhancing...

A third consignment of arms supplied by the United States to help Nepal in its fight against Maoist rebels has arrived here, sources said Monday. The government in 2001 decided to purchase 5,000 M-16 automatic weapons from the United States for Rs 350 million ($4.6 million). In addition, the US agreed to supply 8,000 more M-16s as military assistance. The shipment of 3,000 rifles reached Kathmandu last week, the sources said, and altogether 11,000 weapons have been supplied so far. "Some special units of the Royal Nepal Army (RNA) are already using the up-to-date arms purchased from the United States...