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Sudanese army soldiers take part in a military in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
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UN Security Council meeting on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, September 21, 2017 (EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images)
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USAID supplies unloaded in Arbil, Kurdistan, September 2, 2014 (SAFIN HAMED/Getty Images)
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President Trump with National Security Adviser McMaster, Secretary of Defense Mattis, Vice President Pence, and Secretary of State Tillerson, September 7, 2017 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of a Kurdish Peshmerga battalion show their ink-stained fingers after voting in the Kurdish independence referendum, September 25, 2017 (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Anti-settlements demonstrator interrupts David Friedman at a hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 16, 2016 (Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Displaced Yazidis cross the Syrian-Iraqi border, August 13, 2014 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iranian missile during annual military parade in Tehran, September 22, 2015 (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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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
