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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Security forces patrol as people arrive at the Adly Synagogue for the funeral of the president of the Egyptian Jewish Community Carmen Weinstein on April 18, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Egyptians look at a row of portraits of Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Alexandria, Egypt (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Israeli paratroopers, December 28, 2010 in Negev desert near Beer Sheva, Israel (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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Members of the Pakistan Christian Democratic alliance march during a protest in Lahore on December 25, 2010, in support of Asia Bibi (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
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Saudi (green) and US flags flutter on light poles on June 2, 2009 in preparation for the visit of US President Barack Obama on June 3. (MIDO AHMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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President Obama and Saudi Arabian King Abdullah Bin-Abd-al-Aziz Al Saud, Oval Office of the White House, June 29, 2010, Washington, DC (Roger L. Wollenberg-Pool/Getty Images)
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President Obama with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Oval Office of the White House March 17, 2014 in Washington, DC (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Yarmouk refugee camp, Damascus, January 31, 2014 (UNRWA via Getty Images)
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Rebel fighters inspecting the wreckage of a Syrian army helicopter after Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)'s fighters allegedly destroyed it when they left the Meng Military Airport, Aleppo, March 1, 2014 (MOHAMMED AL-KHATIEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Egyptian soldiers are seen standing guard in military vehicles in Cairo's Tahrir square on January 26, 2014 the day after thousands of demonstrators protested in the square. (AHMED TARANH/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
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
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
