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An illustration photo shows the DeepSeek logo displayed on a smartphone in Shanghai, China, on March 27, 2025. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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An internally displaced Yemeni men receive benefits from a Saudi Foundation on November 25, 2018 in Aden, Yemen. (UNOCHA via Getty Images)
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech to Japanese and U.S. troops with U.S. President Donald Trump, May 28, 2019. (Athit Perawongmetha - Pool/Getty Images)
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Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei leads the Eid al-Fitr Prayer at Grand Prayer Grounds in Tehran, Iran on June 26, 2017. (Getty Images)
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks from the State Department briefing room on June 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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The Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound stands in the Old City on May 9, 2018 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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An armed member of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces secures a conference being held by the predominantly Shia Muslim Popular Mobilization Forces to honour Iranian fighters who died fighting the Islamic State. (Ameer Al Mohammedaw/Getty Images)
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at the Future Investment Initiative FII conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images)
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A group of British soldiers in the court of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 1917 in Jerusalem. (Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Josh Block
Adjunct Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
