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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
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Islamic fighters from the Al-Nusra Front carry a banner of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque with the Arabic slogan: 'We fight in Syria... and our eyes are on Jerusalem' on July 28, 2014. (RAMI AL-SAYED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Glenn Greenwald talks to the media at Auckland Town Hall on September 15, 2014. (Hannah Peters/Getty Images)
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Sister Ann-Elisabeth prays in the Grotto of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, December 20, 2001. (David Silverman/Getty Images)
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A Peshmerga fighter next to the remains of a car bearing the Islamic State's trademark jihadist flag after an American air strike in the village of Baqufa, north of Mosul, on August 18, 2014. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants parade down a street in downtown Gaza City on August 29, 2014. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/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
Mike Watson
Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Strategy and American Statecraft
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
