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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
Middle East
Middle East
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Friday prayers at Feroz Shah Kotla Mosque, a fortress built by Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq to house his version of Delhi city called Ferozabad. (Getty Images)
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L-2) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin (R-2) at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, on October 21, 2015. (Pool/Kremlin Press Office/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Assyrian Christians attend a prayer for the 220 Assyrian Christians abducted by ISIS from villages in northeastern Syria, at the Saint Georges Assyrian Church in Jdeideh, Lebanon, February 26, 2015. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Debris of the A321 Russian airliner after the plane crashed in Wadi al-Zolomat, a mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, on November 1, 2015. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
