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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)
Ranj Alaaldin
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center, Director of the Proxy Wars Initiative, Carnegie Corporation
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February 2017
Past Event
The State of Iraq—and the Republic of Kurdistan?—After ISIS
Featured Speakers:
Eric B. Brown
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman
Ranj Alaaldin
Kenneth M. Pollack
Michael Pregent
23
February 2017
Past Event
The State of Iraq—and the Republic of Kurdistan?—After ISIS
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Michael Pregent, Eric Brown, Kenneth Pollack, and Ranj Alaaldin discuss Iraq, Kurdistan, and the new U.S. administration.
Featured Speakers:
Eric B. Brown
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman
Ranj Alaaldin
Kenneth M. Pollack
Michael Pregent
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Qasem Soleimani with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at a 2017 ceremony commemorating the father of Soleimani, in Musalla, Tehran. (Fars Media Corporation via Wikimedia Commons)
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Mourners carry the coffins of slain Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and eight others during a funeral procession in Iraq on January 4, 2020. (Photo by MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP via 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)