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A team of scientists from Aberdeen Proving Ground has completed the historic mission of destroying the most dangerous of Syria's declared chemical weapons stocks, Pentagon officials said Monday.

Archbishop William E. Lori invites religious leaders throughout our city and state to join him, parishioners of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and all people of good will for an inter-religious and ecumenical prayer service on Sunday, August 24, at 2 p.m. at the Basilica in downtown Baltimore. Though we may differ in our beliefs, we are united by a common desire for peace and by our belief in the power of prayer.

Where's the outrage over radical Islam's slaughter of Christians?

Leaving Iraq was Obama's biggest foreign policy mistake

Many of the things ISIS is doing, supposedly in the name of Islam, are condemned in the Quran.

Iraq's dysfunctional political culture has put the country in danger of falling apart

The U.S. can't stand by as ISIS militants overrun Iraq and slaughter thousands of innocent civilians in its drive to impose an extreme form of Islamic law

ISIS claim of a caliphate is an insult to Islam.

The recent alignment of American and Iranian strategic interests, which last significantly occurred with the unseating of the Taliban in 2001, should not merely be viewed as a fleeting moment in which coordination — or even cooperation — between the two countries is possible. Rather, it should be taken as an opportunity to re-evaluate Iran's behavior as a state more generally and juxtapose it with the type of threat posed by ISIS.

The United States Constitution prohibits the president from re-engaging the United States military in Iraq to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) without new congressional authorization. Further, the struggle for sectarian power there is irrelevant to our national security. Without the justification of self-defense, United States intervention would additionally create a precedent that would invite intervention by Russia or China in their neighboring countries.

President Obama's decision to send military advisers to Iraq will do nothing to resolve the conflict there and may make matters worse.

Calls for American intervention in Iraq follow on a century of misreading the Middle East.

The lack of a substantive foreign policy has left us no good options regarding Iraq.