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The New Department of War logo at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on September 15, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Ehsanullah Ehsan
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view of the damage at Ain al-Asad military airbase housing US and other foreign troops in the western Iraqi province of Anbar.
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Iranian Armenian Christians pray in front of an altar in Saint Sarkis Cathedral in Tehran, Iran on September 27, 2018
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A Malian solider stands with U.S. military personnel.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani review the honor guard during official welcoming ceremony at Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran on April 7, 2015. (Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Palestinians protest the proposed U.S. peace plan in Gaza City, Jan. 31.
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Palestinian protesters confront Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, Jan. 29
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Students from an Islamic school walk near the Great Mosque of Sale near the capital of Rabat. (FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
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
Mike Watson
Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Strategy and American Statecraft
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
