Armed Conflicts

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....

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...

Choosing to photograph, choosing to publish, choosing to look

2012-04-26 11:59:00

Before they started snapping pictures, the amateur photographers of the 82nd Airborne Division whose work was recently made famous by the Los Angeles Times had official business to transact: bombings to investigate, corpses to identify, biometric...

Committed to helping others

2012-04-13 14:22:46

Boys' Latin School's Tyler Steinhardt is always involved in fundraising. If he isn't having a dodge ball tournament to raise money for a child with cancer, then he is organizing a special help group on another high school campus or coaching lacrosse in...

Syria cease-fire represents progress

2012-04-16 09:45:00

The recent news of the cease fire in Syria met with a "ho-hum," skeptical and less-than-enthusiastic reaction ("Shaky cease-fire starts in Syria," April 13). I was stunned. Can't we rejoice for the moment over the historic change in a method based on...

Iraq War activist to speak at Harford Campaign for Liberty meeting

2012-04-19 10:53:00

Famed "Veterans Against The Iraq War" activist Adam Kokesh will speak at Harford County's Campaign For Liberty April meeting. Kokesh will be the featured speaker on April 24 at 7 p.m. at the monthly Campaign for Liberty meeting at the Knights of Columbus...

Hotels agree to wounded soldiers program

2012-03-16 13:02:00

Three national hotel corporations have agreed to participate in a program that will allow Americans to donate their hotel points to wounded soldiers and their families, Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger and Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin said Friday. Bethesda-based...

Maryland National guardsman killed in Afghanistan

2012-02-27 05:08:00

Maj. Robert Marchanti of the Maryland Army National Guard was killed Friday night in Afghanistan, his family said Sunday. Marchanti, 48, a Baltimore County teacher, was on his first one-year tour in Afghanistan and was scheduled to return in September,...

Cardin, Mikulski urge Obama to speed withdrawal from Afghanistan

2012-03-07 14:55:00

Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday�to speed the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. The Maryland Democrats joined a group of 24 senators in declaring the mission in Afghanistan...

At Fort Meade, tryouts for Warrior Games show 'ability over disability'

2012-03-11 18:35:00

When it happened, he didn't feel a thing. Within 30 seconds, "all the pain in the world" coursed through his body. And U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Curtis Winston recalls thinking, among many other things, that he'd never play sports again. Wilson, a former high...

Assad's killing fields

2012-03-26 14:15:00

The announcement Sunday that the U.S. will join Turkey in providing "nonlethal" humanitarian aid to Syrian opposition groups is a clear sign of the Obama administration's growing frustration with the failure of diplomatic efforts to halt Syrian...

The killings in Kandahar

2012-03-12 13:14:00

The bloody mayhem allegedly committed by a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan Sunday couldn't have come at a worse time. The killings, which left up to 16 Afghan civilians dead, are likely to inflame an already tense situation fueled by growing Afghan resentment...

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

Sun photographer John Makely was embedded with the 3rd Battalion, Fifth Regiment convoy on a Tuesday morning when it came under attack. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Marcco Ware, from Los Angeles, carries an injured Iraqi soldier who was shot three times during the attempted ambush.

2012-05-02 10:14:28

A SPLA soldier walks in a market destroyed in an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona near Bentiu. Sudanese warplanes carried out air strikes on South Sudan, killing three people near the southern oil town of Bentiu, residents and military officials said, three days after South Sudan

2012-04-23 00:00:00