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Migrants storm a barbed-wire fence as they attempt to cross the land border with Spain's African enclave of Ceuta near Fnideq in northern Morocco on September 15, 2024. (Getty Images)
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a joint press conference with Iceland's prime minister at the House of Collections in Reykjavik on October 6, 2026. (Getty Images)
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A truck drives through the Alataw Pass Comprehensive Bonded Zone in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bortala in Xinjiang, the Alataw Pass borders Kazakhstan. (Getty Images)
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Rescuers work outside a damaged five-story residential building following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv on October 7, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the Pnyx hill with the ancient Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis seen in the background, in Athens on October 7, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Green Berets offload from an LC-130H Skibird operated by the 109th Airlift Wing of the New York National Guard on August 18, 2026, at Camp Raven in Greenland. (US Air National Guard)
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US President Donald Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin on the tarmac after they arrived at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. (Getty Images)
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The chairman of the Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, announces the Nobel Peace Prize 2026 at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, on October 9, 2026. (Getty Images)
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People visit the Baoding Catholic Church in Baoding, China's northern Hebei province, on April 22, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian hold a meeting in Turkmenbashi on October 8, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Ken Moriyasu
Senior Fellow
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Tomáš Pojar
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center on Europe and Eurasia
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
