Pakistan

Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work

2012-05-21 07:43:00

Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden publicly commanded his foot-soldiers to ramp up the violence against American civilians. But five weeks before his death, he privately instructed his lieutenants to refrain from killing any civilians....

Arundel parent who helped bridge cultures wins involvement award

2012-05-20 20:03:25

An Anne Arundel County parent whose gentle spirit is said to have built bridges between cultures at her sons' elementary school was named the Maryland Parent Involvement Matters Award winner Friday night. Ambareen Jafri, a 35-year-old Crofton mother of...

Reducing the threat of Armageddon

2012-05-20 00:00:00

President Obama achieved a major foreign policy goal in 2010 when he concluded the New START Treaty committing the U.S. and Russia to reduce the size of their long-range nuclear arsenals by a third within six years, to 1,550 warheads on each side. But...

Parkton optometrist goes to India on sight-saving trip

2012-05-16 11:58:00

Students in Hereford High School's Key Club had a chance to see the difference they made in the lives of people living across the globe. The club's 60 members had collected used eyeglasses, sunglasses, coloring books, candy and small toys for OneSight, a...

Republicans can't abide the fact that Obama got bin Laden, and they didn't

2012-05-11 04:30:00

In response to a recent letter-writer claiming that the Navy SEALs, rather than President Obama, deserve the credit for killing Osama bin Laden, there are few sadder things than watching Republicans try to play down the facts ("SEALs, not Obama, deserve...

John Joseph Scocca, Hopkins biochemistry professor

2012-05-14 16:00:31

John Joseph Scocca, a retired Johns Hopkins biochemistry professor recalled for his keen critical eye, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease May 10 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 72 and lived in Aberdeen. Born in South Philadelphia,...

St. Patrick's Day violence exceeded initial reports, police dispatch tapes show

2012-05-12 12:07:00

As an unseasonably warm St. Patrick's Day drew to a close in Baltimore, teens by the hundreds swarmed downtown, keeping one step ahead of police while battling from corner to corner, mostly with fists, sometimes with knives. As authorities watched from a...

Al-Qaida after bin Laden

2012-05-01 12:37:00

One year after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs at his safe house in Pakistan, a substantially weakened al-Qaida and its affiliates continue to pose a threat to the West. The Pakistan-based group's leadership has been decimated by drone...

9/11 defendants refuse to participate in arraignment

2012-05-05 18:03:00

Before self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was brought into court Saturday, Carole Reuben of Potomac said his arraignment would mark "the beginning of the end of the process." Her son, Todd Hayes Reuben, was a passenger on American...

Al-Qaida releases video of hostage from Rockville

2012-05-07 06:42:00

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a video released Sunday by al-Qaida, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands. "My life is in your hands, Mr. President," Weinstein said in...

Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Tuesday

2012-05-08 03:59:00

WEATHER Today's forecast calls for cloudy skies, with a chance of showers this afternoon and a high temperature near 74 degrees. Tonight is expected to be cloudy, with a low temperature around 62 degrees. TRAFFIC Check our traffic updates for this...

As Afghanistan drawdown looms, concerns about Pakistan

2012-05-07 17:21:00

Back from a visit to Kabul, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger expressed confidence in relations between the U.S. and Afghanistan. It's Pakistan that concerns him. "A lot of terrorists are being trained and harbored in Pakistan," said Ruppersberger, the top...

Trucks journey along a roadway at the Torkham border. There was no sign of Pakistan opening its border crossing to NATO trucks carrying essential supplies to Afghanistan, as President Asif Ali Zardari prepared to meet Western leaders. A furious Pakistan slammed shut the Torkham border gate in its

2012-05-20 00:00:00

and the United States appeared on the verge of clinching an agreement to reopen ground supply lines into Afghanistan, a U.S. official said, as Islamabad confirmed its president will attend a summit of NATO leaders this weekend in Chicago.

2012-05-20 00:00:00

Members of Pakistan Tehreh-e-Insaf (PTI) Chicago join protesters in Grant Park for an anti-war march and rally.

2012-05-20 00:00:00