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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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U.S. President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden at the White House April 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Women attend a religious service at the cathedral in Etchmiadzin, outside Yerevan, on April 23, 2015. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)
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Commentary
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The author and Ahmed Farid
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Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., Jan. 29, 2015. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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A woman looks at wooden crosses bearing names of victims at Freedom-Corner in Uhuru Park in Nairobi on April 8, 2015. (SIMON MAINA/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
