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President Donald Trump delivers a speech about the economy at Rockland Community College Fieldhouse in Suffern, New York, on May 22, 2026. (Getty Images)
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President Obama with Defense Secretary Hagel (3rd L), U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Odienaro (2nd L), Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Welsh (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dempsey (R), May 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty)
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Destroyed ammunition is stored in a container during a press day at the GEKA facility on March 5, 2014 in Munster, Germany. (Nigel Treblin/Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) walks with US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Martin Indyk at Ben Gurion International Airport on January 5, 2014 in Tel Aviv. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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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)
Experts
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow
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
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
