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The City of Aberdeen held its traditional Memorial Day observance in Veterans Park Monday. - Freedom House recognizes Hala Aldosari and Vian Dakhil as women who fight for democracy in the world's most undemocratic region.
- Officials and business leaders in Maryland are backing a Pentagon proposal to elevate U.S. Cyber Command to a unified combatant command — one of 10 charged with carrying out missions around the world — a move they hope will bring prestige and more jobs to the state.
- If you're sick of all the spin as to how the U.S. so desperately missed the boat on ISIS, you'll want to see Frontline's "The Secret History of ISIS."
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- Renewed fighting in Syria has pushed the peace process brokered by the U.S. and Russia back to square one
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- If there's a single issue on which the U.S. and Russia should urgently cooperate, it's Saudi Arabia, says Rachel Marsden.
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- Thanks to Russia's President Putin, Syria has become the training ground for ISIS militants bent on attacking Europe
- Rep. C. A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger called Wednesday for the deployment of more Special Operations troops to Iraq to train local forces to fight the self-declared Islamic State.
- World leaders must work together to prevent nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists.
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- As Easter dawns Sunday, Catholic Relief Services and other humanitarian relief agencies in Baltimore and across the U.S. are reaching out to Christians and other religious minorities facing persecution in the Middle East. This month Secretary of State John Kerry declared that Islamic State attacks on Christians and other minorities constitute genocide.
- Foreign governments are building relationships with criminals and other hackers to hide their attempts to break into American computer systems, the head of U.S. Cyber Command told members of Congress on Wednesday.
- The Defense Department has called on military hackers at Fort Meade to disrupt the operations of the self-declared Islamic State, adding cyber weapons to the bombs and missiles the United States has been using to batter the terror group.
- From the cockpit of her A-10, Maryland Air National Guard Capt. Katherine Conrad watched as Kurdish fighters in eastern Iraq battled to retake territory that had been overrun by the self-declared Islamic State.
- Russia can't be trusted to play a constructive role in negotiating an end to Syria's civil war
- The elusive leader of Islamic State's nascent caliphate, has issued a new threat, saying that Israel has come into the sights of his terrorist horde. While this news should be alarming to Israelis, it is more evidence that the Islamic State's outsized ambitions far exceed the group's capabilities.
- As the holiday season brings a brief break in presidential politics, the final party debates of 2015 have left the voters to ponder how differently the Republican and Democratic candidates' propose to meet the terrorist threat facing the nation.
- Marsden: The idea of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump tackling a few challenges together is a welcome thought.
- We can lift a burden from Muslims in America by gaining insight into the faith and its people, says Mary Sanchez.
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- The thought that a GOP faux macho blowhard might be in charge of U.S. foreign policy is far from reassuring.
- The recent terrorist attacks abroad and at home have suddenly dominated the 2016 Republican presidential race, putting most of the contestants on a collision course with President Obama. While all concerned vow the objective of "destroying" the Islamic State, the president and the GOP candidates differ fundamentally on approach and timetable.
- The federal charges filed this week against a Harford County man accused of pledging allegiance to the self-declared Islamic State come as rising fears of terrorism — and growing anti-Muslim rhetoric — have returned to dominate public discussion.
- An Edgewood man pledged allegiance to the self-proclaimed Islamic State and received thousands of dollars from overseas that he believed was funding from the terror group to carry out an attack, federal prosecutors said Monday.
- Three Patterson Mill Middle and High School students received the best early Christmas present ever Wednesday -- a surprise reunion with their father after his six-month deployment to the Middle East.
- Secretary of State John Kerry has come up with an ambitious plan to broaden the fight against ISIS
- David Hobby: How do we defend ourselves against an enemy who can be created overnight through the cult of ISIS?
- If indeed Jihadist murderers sneak in with the refugees they will have no problem getting their hands on military style guns.
- President Obama reassures the nation in the wake of San Bernadino while his critics sow division and hate, so who exactly is soft on terrorism?
- Recent events in Jerusalem have shown that the Israeli government's strategic calculations are incorrect. They apparently believe that the current status quo is sustainable, and that pursuing any serious changes would only make the situation worse. But it's now become clear that the status quo is dangerous and cannot be maintained, and that Israel's political and security situation is slowly getting worse.
- Jonah Goldberg: Personally, I'm opposed to all such forms of guilt by association, but it seems obvious to me that contemporary Christianity is not struggling with a Crusades problem, while Islam is certainly struggling with a jihad problem.
- What's lost in all of this political posturing and cowardice is that, at heart, this is not our war to fight. It is Islam's war, and the Allah-fearing Islamic nations must be the ones to take on radical Islamists who espouse a perverted interpretation of the Quran.
- Britain's entry into the air war in Syria shows the West is capable of presenting a united front against ISIS' terror
- In Paris, the president laid out a consistent, comprehensive vision of U.S. leadership in the world
- Jeb Bush has the challenge of projecting himself as the tried-and-true adult in the pack of GOP candidates.
- As we move toward war against the Islamic State, we must be vigilant -- to fairly allocate the burdens of who's called on to fight the war, to protect civil liberties, to protect innocent civilians abroad, to avoid hate and bigotry, and to fairly distribute the cost of paying for war.
- ISIS cannot be defeated solely by militarily action because ISIS is primarily an idea, not a group of individuals. At any one time, there are several thousand zealots who are actively engaged in brutality. However, there are thousands of others waiting to join them at a rate that exceeds our ability to kill the ones who are active. There is only one way to prevail given this daunting math: We must slow down and ultimately stop the flow of young men to the ranks of ISIS, while we kill, capture or
- For years, Americans and U.S. policymakers have made punching bags of France, says John Kass.
- It lurks deep in the temporal lobe of the brain's cerebrum. It is almond-shaped and scientists call it the amygdala. It is where the emotions of fear and anger reside. A protective mechanism shared by all, it requires the right cue to spring into action. The terror attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 and the saturated media coverage that followed were the trigger this time.
- Mideastern immigrants increase the terrorist threat
- The downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey threatens to increase tensions among ISIS' opponents
- The rush to lock out Syrian refugees has much to do with broad distrust and dislike of Muslims, says David Horsey.
- Fadi Antar got to Baltimore last week. He arrived just days after Gov. Larry Hogan requested that the federal government stop sending his people here. Antar and his cousin had fled the chaos in Syria, and they came to Annapolis Monday — backed by civil rights and refugee groups — asking to meet with Hogan to get a chance to explain why the state should accept people from the war-torn region.
- In the wake of the Paris attacks, the U.S. must act more aggressively to halt Syria's slide into chaos
- The rogue military force of Islamic radical jihadists has succeeded not only in establishing itself as an agent of barbarism and fear in the West, but also has intruded in a major way on the American presidential campaign.
- Obama's phony war on ISIS is about pretending to do something while the clock on his tenure runs out, says Jonah Goldberg.
