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A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Debris lies on the ground by the wreckage of Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia June 29, 1996 after a truck bomb exploded four days previously, killing 19 American servicemen residing there (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presents statements following the Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on October 5, 2020. (Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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People participate in a pro-Palestinian rally on May 22, 2021 in the Queens borough of New York City. After the recent ceasefire between Israelis and Palestinians, activists in New York protested for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. (Photo b
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the faithful at the weekly Muslim Friday prayers at Tehran University on June 19, 2009 (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
