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A flag of the United Nations flies at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on August 14, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Silhouette of Challenger tank crewman in turret, circa 1991. (Roger Ryan/Crown Copyright/IWM via Getty Images)
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Russian warcrafts hit the Syrian opposition controlled town Daret Ezza in Aleppo, Syria on October 13, 2015. (Mamun Abu Omer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Hundreds of Assyrians protest in front of the European parliament in Brussels, March, 23, 2015. (Jonathan Raa/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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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
Nadav Samin
Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
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
