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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi inspect a guard of honor on October 29, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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A view of a make-shift chapel on an Armenian frontline position on October 20, 2020 near Aghdam, Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks in Ankara, Turkey, Oct. 5.
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A processing rig by Israel’s Leviathan natural-gas field near the city of Caesarea on January 31, 2019.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks remotely to the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 22.
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Afghan security officials patrolled a highway in the southern province of Helmand in August. The province is a Taliban stronghold.
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Interior of Vank Cathedral, Isfahan, Iran
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Emmanuel Macron President of the French Republic on February 27, 2020 in Naples, Italy.
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, arrive at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, Saturday, April 9, 2016.
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This picture released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, is said to show the launching of the "Martyr Hajj Qassem" missile in an undisclosed location in Iran.
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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)
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
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
Mike Watson
Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Strategy and American Statecraft
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
