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An aerial view of a container ship arriving at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025, in Oakland, California. (Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
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Lebanese protesters clash with security forces during a demonstration against the ongoing trash crisis in Beirut, August 22, 2015. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Smoke billows in Egypt's North Sinai on July 2, 2015. At least 70 people, mostly Egyptian soldiers but also civilians, were killed in attacks and ongoing clashes with Islamic State group jihadists.(SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood gather in front the party's headquarters in Cairo on March 22, 2013. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iran President Hassan Rouhani (C) attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, September 12, 2014. (Kyrgyzstan Presidential Office Press Center/Pool/Dosaliev Sultan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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ISIS fighters in Libya (Dabiq Magazine)
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
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
Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Strategy and American Statecraft
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
