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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the US Ambassador’s Residence on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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Muslim Brotherhood supporters carry portraits of ousted president Mohamed Morsi outisde Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo, July 26, 2013 (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holds a press conference in Istanbul after the AKP victory in the Turkish elections, November 3, 2002 (Staton R. Winter/Getty Images)
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MSP leader Abderrazak Mokri calls for a boycott of the presidential election, January 31, 2014 (Bachir Zemouri/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Members of the Iraqi Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitary forces southwest of Mosul, April 28, 2017 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Tahrir Square, Cairo, January 24, 2016 (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pro-Kurdistan independence rally in Erbil, September 22, 2017 (Image credit: Levi Clancy)
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Supporters gather in Abidjan, during a ceremony marking the 50 years to the day since an independent republic of Biafra was declared, May 30, 2017 (SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on overseas duty in North Africa are reviewed by General Eisenhower, August 3, 1943 (Bettmann/Getty Images)
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President Trump announces he will not recertify the Iran deal, October 13, 2017 (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/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
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
