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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Terrorism
Terrorism
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A vehicle with Somali National Army soldiers on patrol on October 17, 2022, near Doolow in the Gedo region of South West, Somalia. (Photo by Giles Clarke/UNOCHA via Getty Images)
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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a rally outside the former US embassy in the capital Tehran on November 4, 2022, in Tehran, Iran. (Contributor via Getty Images)
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Smoke rises after coup supporters set fire to the headquarters of President Mohamed Bazoum's party, the Party for Democracy and Socialism in Niger in Niamey, Niger, on July 27, 2023. (Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Yevgeny Prigozhin attends a meeting at Konstantin Palace on June 16, 2016, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov via Getty Images)
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A police officer stops a car at a check point ahead of the February 25 presidential election at Awka in Anambra State, southeast Nigeria, on February 16, 2023. (Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images)
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John F. Kirby holds a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2022. (DoD photo by James K. Lee)
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Policemen stand guard along a street in Peshawar, Pakistan, on February 1, 2023. (Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images)
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Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
Ezra Cohen
Adjunct Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
