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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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Evacuees await their departure at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 23, 2021. (Gunnery Sergeant Melissa Marnell/USMC)
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Iranian demonstrators burn an effigy of President Joe Biden in downtown Tehran during a rally commemorating the International Quds Day on April 29, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Egyptian university students gather on November 26, 2013, in Alexandria, Egypt, to protest the anti-demonstration law, which bans protests without prior police approval. (Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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The China-donated Gwadar Technical and Vocational Institute in southwest Pakistan's Gwadar on October 1, 2021, just after the building's completion. (Photo by Str/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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An Afghan woman begs for money from passing cars in the snow, with her child huddled beside her, on the Kabul road south to Pul-e Alam, Afghanistan, on January 17, 2022. (Scott Peterson/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
