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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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Displaced Assyrians at the Ibrahim-al Khalil Melkite Greek Catholic church in the Jaramana district on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 1, 2015. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iranians chant slogans during a demonstration in Tehran on May 29, 2015. ( ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Egyptian Christian mourns following a New Year's Eve car bomb attack on the Coptic church in Alexandria in which 21 people were killed, on January 2, 2011 outside the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
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A damaged painting of Jesus Christ on the ground of Syriac Orthodox Um al-Zinar church in Homs, central Syria, May 12, 2014. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama (C-L) is greeted by then-Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (C-R) upon his arrival at Rawdat Khurayim on March 28, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/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)
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
