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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Education Minister Sergey Kravtsov on October 21 2024, in Razdory, Russia. (Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 26, 2022. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
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Azerbaijan flag waving in center of the city on November 28, 2020 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Aziz Karimov/Getty Images)
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech in the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in downtown Tehran on January 3, 2022. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Woman in a hijab takes part in Black Lives Matter protest in Cologne, Germany, on June 7, 2020. (Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Acehnese Muslims are seen attending Eid al-Fitr prayer which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan at the Islamic Center Mosque in Lhokseumawe, on May 13, 2021, Aceh Province, Indonesia. (Photo by Fachrul Reza/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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U.S. servicemen walk through rain and strong winds with an AIM-120 missile on January 31, 2006. (U.S Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Eric T. Sheler)
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Passengers are loaded aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Forces Europe-Africa via Getty Images)
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A mosaic discovered 1884 at the Church of Saint George in Jordan depicting the Holy Land, including Jerusalem, the Jordan River, and the Dead Sea in the 6th Century AD. (Getty Images)
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A Russian Moskva guided missile cruiser participates in a naval parade near a Ukrainian military base in Sevastopol. (Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Josh Block
Adjunct Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
