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President Donald Trump during a news conference in the White House briefing room on Monday, April 6, 2026. (Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
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The graffiti tagged on the wall of a house in the Iraqi city of Mosul, July 26, 2014. It reads in Arabic : 'Real estate property of the Islamic State (IS)'. (AFP/Getty Images)
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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein waves to his supporters in his first public appearance in Baghdad October 18, 1995. (INA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Cardinal Theodore McCarrick (Courtesy of Order of Malta Moment)
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Police officers and rescue workers stand near a van that ploughed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice on July 14, 2016. (VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
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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)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
