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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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An Afghan woman begs for money from passing cars in the snow, with her child huddled beside her, on the Kabul road south to Pul-e Alam, Afghanistan, on January 17, 2022. (Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
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Taliban members ride on top of an armored vehicle on August 15, 2022, during a celebration of the first anniversary of the Taliban's return to power in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Nava Jamshidi/Getty Images)
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Taliban soldiers stand guard as inmates sit in a prison courtyard while waiting to be released on orders from the Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada at Kandahar Central Prison in Kandahar on July 5, 2022. (Photo by JAVED TANVEER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Law enforcement guard the front of the Supreme Court on June 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
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The black flags of “Boko Haram” are still visible on this building (pictured August 2021), which “Boko Haram” used as a prison and execution grounds during its occupation of Gwoza town in Borno state from 2014 to 2015. (James Barnett)
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Iranian Clerics chant slogans during an anti-U.S. rally in Tehran on April 14, 2019 after the U.S. designation of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. (Photo by Rouzbeh Fouladi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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
