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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi inspect a guard of honor on October 29, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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Vehicles travel along the treacherous Srinagar Leh highway on August 27, 2024, in Ladakh, India. Ladakh is a strategically important region due to ongoing territorial disputes with Pakistan and China. (Yawar Nazir via Getty Images)
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Yahya Sinwar and Mustafa Barghouti attend a rally in support of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque in Gaza City on October 1, 2022. (Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)
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Yemen's Houthi followers hold placards depicting the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on August 9, 2024, in Sana'a, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud via Getty Images)
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators leave Palestinian flags and graffiti on the Rochambeau Statue in Lafayette Park next to the White House on June 8, 2024. (Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, on October 4, 2024. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei awards the Order of Fat'h to Amir Ali Hajizadeh in Tehran, Iran, on October 6, 2024. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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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
