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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the US Ambassador’s Residence on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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People stand on the debris of the house which was razed to ground during the gunfight between militants and Indian security forces in Drangbal area of Pampore in south Kashmir on October 16, 2021. (Faisal Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Supporters of Niger's National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) gather for a demonstration in Niamey on August 11, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin with Ibrahim Traore and Dennis Fassou Nguesso during the annual Navy Day Parade on July 30, 2023, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (via Getty Images)
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Personnel of the Somali military force supporting anti-government opposition leaders are stationed on a street in Mogadishu, Somalia, on April 25, 2021. (AFP via Getty Images)
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People demonstrate in Niger's capital, Niamey, to show their support for the coup plotters. (Djibo Issifou via Getty Images)
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General Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of Nigeia's presidential guard who declared himself the new leader of the country after a coup, in Niamey, Niger, on July 28, 2023. (Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Smoke rises after coup supporters set fire to the headquarters of President Mohamed Bazoum's party, the Party for Democracy and Socialism in Niger in Niamey, Niger, on July 27, 2023. (Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Nigerian Catholic worshipper pray during morning mass April 12, 2005, in Kano, Nigeria.(Chris Hondros via Getty Images)
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Members of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church hold Stations of the Cross procession to reenact Good Friday in Ogba, Lagos, Nigeria, on April 7, 2023. (Adekunle Ajayi via Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
