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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

The U.S. strategy to contain and defeat Boko Haram isn't working.

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

The stakes for America in Syria's uprising

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.