syria

Saudi Arabia was the villain behind 9/11

Renewed fighting in Syria has pushed the peace process brokered by the U.S. and Russia back to square one

If there's a single issue on which the U.S. and Russia should urgently cooperate, it's Saudi Arabia, says Rachel Marsden.

Thanks to Russia's President Putin, Syria has become the training ground for ISIS militants bent on attacking Europe

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.

As we mark the fifth anniversary of the Syrian Civil War, it is becoming increasingly evident that the millions of people who have fled their homes will not be returning any time soon. So what now?

Millions fleeing poverty and war in their homelands have provoked a backlash that threatens the entire trans-Atlantic partnership

Russia can't be trusted to play a constructive role in negotiating an end to Syria's civil war

Tweets show Americans' support for Syria's refugees is strong

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.

We can lift a burden from Muslims in America by gaining insight into the faith and its people, says Mary Sanchez.

Secretary of State John Kerry has come up with an ambitious plan to broaden the fight against ISIS

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

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.

Democrats will pay dearly in the polls if any admitted Syrian refugees turn out to be terrorists, says Cal Thomas.

After the attacks in Paris, France, Richard Cohen of The Washington Post wrote that intolerance is our common enemy and the root of terrorism around the world. But intolerance is not limited to any nation or religion. Since the attacks in Paris, a lot of intolerance has been observed right here in America.

The downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey threatens to increase tensions among ISIS' opponents

We face a difficult choice: If we let in more refugees from Syria inevitably some terrorists will seek to hide in their number. But if we slam the door in the face of these thousands, most of whom are innocent of any crime other then being born in the wrong country, we turn the Statue of Liberty around. For those of us who profess any religion, we violate those teachings. Religious or not we violate the morality of our nation.

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.

WASHINGTON -- Refugees from Syria undergo an "extraordinary thorough and comprehensive" screening process that is "multi-layered and intensive" senior officials in the Obama administration wrote to Gov. Larry Hogan in a letter this week.

Sunday column on Trump, Carson and the rhetoric of fear in presidential politics

In calls, in emails, and Friday during a rally in Annapolis, in chants, residents of Maryland are continue to put pressure on Gov. Larry Hogan to reconsider his opposition to Syrian refugees

The Howard County Council's four Democrats are speaking out against Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's decision earlier this week to ask that the federal government stop efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in the state until it can be determined they are not a danger to public safety.

Witcover: The Paris attacks have shone a light on the foreign policy deficiencies of Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

Tapping into heightened security fears after the Paris terror attacks, House Republicans — joined by Democrats — rebuffed President Obama on Thursday and overwhelmingly approved legislation that would effectively halt the resettlement of refugees from Syria and Iraq to the U.S.

Maryland's governor joins a parade of misguided and misanthropic governors who would bar the door to Syrian refugees fleeing violence

When Julie Della-Maria first learned of the terrorist attacks in Paris the night of Nov. 13, she thought immediately of her brother, who lives near where one of the attacks took place, and then vast distance between him and where she lives in Sykesville. They were able to connect the next day, to her great relief. Her brother was safe, but deeply affected.

The deadly terror attacks in Paris sparked a heated political debate in the U.S. on Monday as policymakers sparred over President Barack Obama's plan to settle thousands more Syrian refugees in the country.

Giving into fear, abandoning our democratic values and demonizing refugees is not the U.S. should respond to Paris attacks

It is troubling to think that four countries whose forays into affecting change in Syria have had tepid results at best have the audacity to discuss peace and a post-Assad regime without including the two main belligerents to the conflict.

Every evening as she got ready for bed, Narmin Al Eethawi knew that when sleep came, so would the nightmare. A woman would appear, dressed in black robes, her

President Barack Obama needs to abandon his arms-length stance toward Middle Eastern diplomacy and make an all-out effort for peace.

The lesser of many evils

We have to stay out of the Syrian civil war while keeping up the fight against ISIS.

The Obama administration must not allow Russian military planes to interfere with the U.S.-led air campaign over Syria

Obama's blunders in Syria

President Putin's decision to deploy aircraft in Syria and bomb opponents of President Assad may be "a recipe for disaster" as President Obama asserts, but it neatly exploits U.S. and western European vulnerabilities in the region. And it gives Russia leverage to undermine NATO and destabilize the oil-rich Middle East.

The president's favorite rhetorical trope is to justify withdrawing from the world on the grounds that the "international community" will fill the vacuum created by our abdication, says Jonah Goldberg. But only the bad actors step up.

U.S. response to Syria is too little and too late

The mess in Syria is Obama's fault

Needed: A new U.S. strategy for Syria

U.S. actions in the Middle East since the Bush administration have clearly contributed to refugee crisis