National Security and Defense

Two F-35B combat aircraft from the United States Marine Corp depart after re-fueling from an RAF Voyager aircraft over the North Sea on October 08, 2020 in flight, above Scotland.
SIMI operatives led to court in Bhopal, India, May 13, 2014 (Praveen Bajpai/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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SIMI operatives led to court in Bhopal, India, May 13, 2014 (Praveen Bajpai/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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Praveen Swami
Editor, Strategic Affairs, The Indian Express
Praveen Swami
Long Read
MSP leader Abderrazak Mokri calls for a boycott of the presidential election, January 31, 2014 (Bachir Zemouri/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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MSP leader Abderrazak Mokri calls for a boycott of the presidential election, January 31, 2014 (Bachir Zemouri/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Vish Sakthivel
Robert A. Fox Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Vish Sakthivel
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Investigators work around the wreckage of a Home Depot pickup truck a day after it was used in a terror attack in New York, November 1, 2017 (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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Investigators work around the wreckage of a Home Depot pickup truck a day after it was used in a terror attack in New York, November 1, 2017 (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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husain_haqqani
husain_haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
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Members of the Iraqi Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitary forces southwest of Mosul, April 28, 2017 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Iraqi Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitary forces southwest of Mosul, April 28, 2017 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Ranj Alaaldin
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center, Director of the Proxy Wars Initiative, Carnegie Corporation
Ranj Alaaldin
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