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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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A man walks outside the near deserted historic Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on November 12, 2023, in Jerusalem. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with several top Arab diplomats in Amman, Jordan, to discuss ongoing developments in the Gaza Strip on November 4, 2023. (Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, attached to the "Fighting Swordsmen" of Strike Fighter Squadron 32, takes off from the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) on July 10, 2023, in the Atlantic Ocean. (DVIDS)
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The Rubymar cargo ship sinking off the coast of Yemen, damaged in a missile strike by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels on February 25, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Seven sympathizers of the Daesh terror organization undergo trial in the District Court of West Jakarta, January 21, 2016. (Azqa Harun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Thousands of Houthi supporters gather at Sebin Square to stage a solidarity demonstration with Palestinians and protest against the Israeli attacks on Gaza on February 9, 2024, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud via Getty Images)
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Iranian missiles exhibited in a park on January 20, 2024, in Tehran, Iran. (Majid Saeedi via Getty Images)
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Youth activists of Muslim Talba Mahaz shout slogans during a protest against Iranian air strikes. (Raja Imran Bahadert via 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
