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Sudanese army soldiers take part in a military in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Patriarchate of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East in Erbil, Iran, on September 16, 2022. (Tony Kiriakidis via Flickr)
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An election campaign banner showing Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with Narendra Modi on September 11, 2019, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Iranians gather to celebrate the new year at Saint Sarkis Cathedral on January 1, 2022, in Tehran, Iran. (Meghdad Madadi via ATPImages/Getty Images)
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Joe Biden holds a bilateral meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on July 14, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
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Moroccan and Chinese officials sign a memorandum of understanding to promote trade between the two countries in Rabat, Morocco, on November 30, 2023. (Twitter via HAIDAAbdelali)
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A banner reading "#End Jew Hatred" at a rally in Berlin, Germany, on July 25, 2021. (Jörg Carstensen/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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US Marines fire an M777-A2 Howitzer in Syria on June 2, 2017. (US Marine Corps Photo by Matthew Callahan)
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A gathering outside of the former US embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 2022, celebrating the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the embassy by protestors. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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An Israeli flag flies in Jerusalem. (David Silverman via Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
