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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)
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Screenshots of Canadians André Poulin of Ontario and John Maguire of Ottawa in ISIS recruitment videos.
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An MQ-9 Reaper takes off August 8, 2007 at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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Members of the jihadist group Al-Nusra Front fire homemade mortar rounds during fighting with government forces on February 8, 2014 in the Syrian village of Aziza, on the southern outskirts of Aleppo. (BARAA AL-HALABI/AFP/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama delivers remarks in Washington, DC, March 9, 2015. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani under portraits of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C-L) and Iran's founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (C-R), in a suburb of Tehran on June 3, 2014. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) with U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) (C) and Minority Whip Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) (R) at the U.S. Capitol March 3, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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A pump jack, used to extract crude oil from the ground, sits above a well on the edge of a farmers field on January 21, 2015 near Ridgway, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Noble Energy CEO Charles Davidson April 10, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Moshe Milner/GPO via 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
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
