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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Middle East
Middle East
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U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) answer questions during a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House February 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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A Syrian refugee family from Aleppo, stay under a shelter during a rainy day on March 8, 2014, at Uskudar in Istanbul. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
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National Security Adviser Michael Flynn answers questions in the briefing room of the White House February 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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A Iraqi Christian boy lights candles inside a shrine in the grounds of Mazar Mar Eillia (Mar Elia) Catholic Church, on December 12, 2014 in Erbil, Iraq. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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A damaged painting of Jesus Christ on the ground of Syriac Orthodox Um al-Zinar church in the Christian Hamidiyeh neighbourhood of the old city of Homs, central Syria, May 12, 2014. (JOSEPH EID/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
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
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
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
