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President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
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Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, pray during a Christmas mass in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq on December 24, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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A flag flying at an undisclosed location in Iran next to a surface-to-surface Qiam-1 (Rising) missile, August 20, 2010. (VAHID REZA ALAEI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City on December 20, 2013. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)
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People take part in a celebration after Michel Aoun elected as a President during the Parliamentary session, in Beirut, Lebanon on October 31, 2016. (Ratib Al Safadi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Israeli navy vessels patrolling the Mediterranean Sea, July 9, 2014. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
