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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
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Egyptian Coptic Christians at the Virgin Mary church on May 16, 2014 in Cairo's Road al-Farag district. (VIRGINIE NGUYEN HOANG/AFP/Getty Images)
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Palestinian militants of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, in the central Gaza Strip on June 30, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Bombed police checkpoint, Tuz Khurmatu, Iraq, June 9, 2014 (Marwan Ibrahim/AFP/Getty Images).
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A Palestinian youth take part in military-inspired exercises organised by the Islamist movement Hamas on June 19, 2014 in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hands with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai during a meeting in New Delhi on May 27, 2014.(RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Egyptian demonstrators clash with Egyptian police in central Cairo during a protest to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and calling for reforms on January 25, 2011. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/GettyImages)
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Iraqi Kurds hold the Kurdish flag and a poster of Iraqi Kurdistan's regional president Masoud Barzani (R) in Akra, Iraq's, March 20, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iranian elite revolutionary guards march during an annual military parade in Tehran on September 22, 2011. (ATTA KENARE/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
