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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
Middle East
Middle East
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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)
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Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu as a commander in the armored brigade (yoni.org)
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the Iran nuclear agreement August 5, 2015 at American University in Washington, DC. (Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images)
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An Iraqi woman displaced from the city of Fallujah carries a child at a newly opened camp where hundreds of displaced Iraqis are taking shelter in Amriyat al-Fallujah on June 27, 2016, south of Fallujah. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a joint press conference with the Israeli prime minister in Jerusalem on June 28, 2016. (RONEN ZVULUN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
