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The New Department of War logo at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on September 15, 2025. (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)
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Tahrir Square, Cairo, January 24, 2016 (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pro-Kurdistan independence rally in Erbil, September 22, 2017 (Image credit: Levi Clancy)
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Supporters gather in Abidjan, during a ceremony marking the 50 years to the day since an independent republic of Biafra was declared, May 30, 2017 (SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on overseas duty in North Africa are reviewed by General Eisenhower, August 3, 1943 (Bettmann/Getty Images)
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President Trump announces he will not recertify the Iran deal, October 13, 2017 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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UN Security Council meeting on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, September 21, 2017 (EuropaNewswire/Gado/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
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
