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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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Security personnel stand guard in front of the High Commission of Canada in New Delhi on September 19, 2023. (Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple in Surrey British Columbia, Canada, on September 19, 2023. (Don MacKinnon/AFP via Getty Images)
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US army soldiers assigned to the 10th Mountain Division stand security at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 15, 2021. (Isaiah Campbell via DVIDS)
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A Taliban flag at the Afghanistan embassy in Beijing on September 19, 2023. (Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images)
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, India, on September 9, 2023. (Ministry of External Affairs of India via Flickr)
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Afghans make their way through a flooded street toward a nearby airport entrance to try their chance at evacuating out of the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 25, 2021. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times)
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi alongside US President Joe Biden in the White House on June 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the East Asia Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 7, 2023. (Ministry of External Affairs of India via Flickr)
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A high angle view of Raja Ghazanfar Ali Road in the old city area of Saddar, Karachi. (Getty Images)
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A Taliban security personnel gestures as women stand in a queue outside the passport office in Herat on August 26, 2023. (Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images)
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Afghan burqa-clad women walk past a Taliban security personnel along a street in Jalalabad on April 30, 2023. (Shafiullah Kakar/AFP via Getty Images)
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Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
John Lee
Senior Fellow
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
