A MIM-104 Patriot Surface-to-Air Missile System fires as part of a bilateral live-fire exercise with military members from the Royal Netherlands Ground-based Air Defense Command at McGregor Range in New Mexico on May 11, 2024. (US Army)
A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Uzushio-class submarine participates in an international fleet review at Sagami Bay on November 6, 2022, off Yokosuka, Japan. (Getty Images)
Protesters shout "Allahu akbar" at media cameras gathered outside the radical Musa Mosque in Mombasa, Kenya, following days of riots sparked by the assassination of cleric Aboud Rogo, on August 27, 2012. (Alan Boswell via Getty Images)
A police officer walks beside a burnt prison vehicle in Abuja, Nigeria, on July 6, 2022, after suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked the Kuje Medium Prison. (Kola Sulaimon via Getty Images)
Director, Centre for African Conflict and Development
Michael Nwankpa
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Puntland Maritime Police Forces are patrolling against the recently increasing pirate attacks off the coast in Puntland, Somalia on January 29, 2024. (Abuukar Mohamed via Getty Images)
Pakistani Christian Perveen Bibi weeps outside the torched Saint John Church in Jaranwala on the outskirts of Faisalabad on August 17, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi via Getty Images)
Mourners carry the coffins of slain Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, during a funeral procession on January 4, 2020. (Mohammed Sawaf via Getty Images)
Worshippers take part in a fitness session after prayer in a mosque of the Bagcilar district in Istanbul on February 8, 2024. (Yasin Akgul via Getty Images)
A member of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service raises the victory gesture as others hold upside-down the black flag of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, on June 30, 2017. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)
Gloria and Ken Levy Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Aaron Y Zelin
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Afghan security forces patrol during ongoing clashes between security forces and Islamic State militants in eastern Nangarhar province on July 26, 2016. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images)
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, on October 4, 2024. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)