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- The fall of the Iraq city of Ramadi Sunday shows the U.S. strategy for countering the Islamic State isn't working out quite as planned
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- The Taliban attack on Pakistani schoolchildren yesterday has galvanized public opinion against the insurgents
- In August 1990, a few hundred Marines helicoptered into Liberia and evacuated U.S. citizens. To Liberians, it was as if the cavalry in a Western movie had showed up in the nick of time, but stopped and galloped off before saving the day. I thought of this image when U.S. troops started landing in large numbers in Liberia, this time to help stem the epidemic of Ebola.
- Robert W. Weinhold Sr., a decorated Vietnam War Army Airborne Ranger who later worked for several financial institutions, died Monday at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center of kidney failure. He was 75.
- Russia's proxy war in Ukraine has backfired with the downing of a Malaysian airliner by separatist rebels
- Maryland was a laggard when it came to agreeing to declare independence from Great Britain, but the change in attitudes here was swift and complete.
- BAGHDAD (AP) ¿ Iraq's top Shiite cleric stepped up the pressure Friday on politicians to agree on Iraq's next prime minister, after incumbent Nouri al-Maliki lost the confidence of former allies in the fight against Sunni militants.
- A tangle of conflicting regional alliances and enmities has left the U.S. with few good options to prevent Iraq from falling apart
- The U.S. must help Nigerian authorities rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist extremists
- The recent passage of Maryland's Marijuana Decriminalization Bill was an act of rebellion. Not against society's norms, but against one man: House Judiciary Chair Joseph Vallario.
- Some things are binary. They either are or they aren't. You can't be sort of pregnant or partially certifiable; it's one or the other — like being a Yankees or a Red Sox fan.
- To the right, 9/11 is a symbol for what we're trying to prevent through our involvement in the Middle East. Every militant group remotely affiliated with al Qaida in Iraq and Afghanistan — regardless of whether their goals include attacks on U.S. soil — has been thrown into a Qaida quesadilla and is immediately considered an enemy.
- Based on original survey data from rebel-controlled territory in Syria, we find that civilians are war-weary and looking for a settlement to end the war, but rebel fighters appear entrenched in the belief that Syrian President Bashar al Assad must be defeated, no matter the costs. A major challenge for Geneva will be to convince rebel forces to forgo the pursuit of victory and vengeance against Mr. Assad's regime. Though rebels may balk at a peace deal, there is growing distance between those
- In early 2003, I marched through downtown Washington D.C. with my fellow University of Maryland students to protest the Bush Administration's push toward war with the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
- Qaida-linked militants in Iraq capture control of Fallujah and Ramadi
- The U.S. has little choice but to respond forcefully to Syria's most recent use of chemical weapons against its citizens
- Citizens of Baltimore were naturally jittery as news swept through the city that Confederate and Union forces, inextricably locked on a deadly course, were about to meet in an epic battle that unfolded in Gettysburg, a small Pennsylvania farming village.
- Absent peace talks, the EU's arming of Syrian rebels is apt to make a bad situation even worse
- President Barack Obama is waffling on his earlier "red line" talk about Syrian arms -- for good reason.
- Algeria and Mali underscore the continuing threat of Islamic extremism across North Africa
- As the endgame of Syria's civil war draws near, the U.S. needs to be ready for what comes next
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- Matthew VanDyke, the Baltimore man who was captured in Libya last year while fighting with the rebels who eventually overthrew dictator Moammar Gadhafi, says he is now raising money for a documentary about the uprising in Syria.
- Taliban attack on a Pakistani weapons site underscores the U.S.' worst fears about its unstable, nuclear-armed ally
- Several organizations at Aberdeen Proving Ground are focused on stopping the signature weapon of the enemy in Afghanistan and Iraq: the Improvised Explosive Device, responsible for more than half the U.S. deaths in those two countries over the past decade.
- Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's use of attack helicopters against civilians shows the regime's desperation
- The U.S. should explore peace talks with the Taliban while continuing to pound insurgent leaders
- U.S. officials declared an end to the mission in Iraq on Thursday, lowering the flag used by the American forces in a ceremony at Baghdad International Airport attended by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Defense cuts: Pentagon expert Michael O'Hanlon says that in an age of austerity, the U.S. needs a military framework that's less ambitious but more flexible and realistic
- Best avenue to achieve stability might be to improve ties between Afghanistan and Pakistan
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- Baltimore native Spc. Jameel T. Freeman was killed by a roadside bomb, a friend said Friday. He was 26. Freeman was detailed to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan for the U.S. Army.
- Congressional Republicans debt ceiling posturing should be ignored.