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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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People carry Turkish flags at Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey on July 17, 2016 as they gather to protest the failed military coup attempt. ( Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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A Turkish anti riot police officer stands guard on a tank after a military position on the Bosphorus bridge was taken over in Istanbul on July 16, 2016. (OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Supporters wave the flag of Lebanon and the Shiite movement Hezbollah alongside a poster of former Hezbollah leader Abbas al-Mussawi during a rally in Beirut on February 16, 2016. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu as a commander in the armored brigade (yoni.org)
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the Iran nuclear agreement August 5, 2015 at American University in Washington, DC. (Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images)
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An Iraqi woman displaced from the city of Fallujah carries a child at a newly opened camp where hundreds of displaced Iraqis are taking shelter in Amriyat al-Fallujah on June 27, 2016, south of Fallujah. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/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
