Caption
Sudanese army soldiers take part in a military in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
Header image
Caption
Pump jacks at the Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site in California, November 4, 2014 (Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/UIG via Getty Images)
Caption
Hezbollah fighters salute during funeral for comrades killed in Syria, November 8, 2017 (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images)
Caption
Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri greets his supporters upon his arrival at his home in Beirut on November 22, 2017 (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Caption
Muslim Brotherhood supporters carry portraits of ousted president Mohamed Morsi outisde Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo, July 26, 2013 (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Hessen
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Mike Watson
Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Strategy and American Statecraft
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
