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Ceremonial soldiers parade during the 79th anniversary of the Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2024. (Sefa Karacan via Getty Images)
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Middle East
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The Prophet Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in the northern Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on November 14, 2016. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
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A youth waves Egyptian flags from a lamp post in Tahrir Square on February 1, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump holds a meeting with members of his cabinet including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L) and Secretary of Defense James Mattis (R) in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 13, 2017(Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
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Egyptian Christians, who took shelter at Saint Anthony church due to violent events in the Sinai Peninsula, carry their belongings in Zaafarana, Egypt on February 26, 2017. (Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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A mourner reads the Quran on August 17, 2011 in Gaza City, Gaza. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, appears in a video in which he warns Cameroon it faces the same fate as Nigeria. (Boko Haram video screenshot)
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A protest against military regime on the fifth anniversary of Egyptian revolution, in Giza, Egypt on January 24, 2016. (Hesham Fathy/Anadolu Ag
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City market, Marrakech, Morocco. (Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images)
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Map Of The Umayyad Caliphate Empire In 750 And The Islamic Empire In 1215. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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Screenshot from a propaganda video uploaded on June 11 by the Islamic State allegedly shows militants driving at an undisclosed location in Iraq's Nineveh province.
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(L-R) U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talk during the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies on March 26, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
Experts
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
Jonathan Hessen
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
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
Associate Director, Center for the Future of Liberal Society
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
