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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi inspect a guard of honor on October 29, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017 (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Fourteen members of the Security Council raise their hands in affirmation of Resolution 2334, December 23, 2016 (Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Child cries besides the coffins of his parents, who were killed in the Minya Bus Attack on May 26, 2017 (Ibrahim Ezzat/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman speaks to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon, March 16, 2017 (U.S. Department of Defense)
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Saudi King Salman meeting with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, June 2, 2017 (Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Royal Council /Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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United States Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel (Krokodyl)
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
