ISLAMABAD — The United States is considering donating some of its 1200 mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles known as MRAPs in Afghanistan to neighboring Pakistan after considering the high cost of transporting the vehicles out of the country when the NATO-led combat mission in Afghanistan formally comes to an end in December.
The 84-year-old Fire and Brimstone former pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, Fred Phelps, died of natural causes at 11:15 pm, according to church spokesman Steve Drain.
Moments after President Obama announced new sanctions against 20 Russian individuals and a Russian bank for that countries attempts to annex portions of eastern Ukraine, Russia responded with sanctions against the U.S.
One day after Russia signed a treaty with authorities in Crimea, at least 200, unarmed pro-Russian self-defense forces have stormed the Ukraine Navy headquarters in that region and have taken control, raising a Russian flag over the facility.