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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)
Middle East
Middle East
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Passengers are loaded aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Forces Europe-Africa via Getty Images)
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A mosaic discovered 1884 at the Church of Saint George in Jordan depicting the Holy Land, including Jerusalem, the Jordan River, and the Dead Sea in the 6th Century AD. (Getty Images)
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A Russian Moskva guided missile cruiser participates in a naval parade near a Ukrainian military base in Sevastopol. (Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images)
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President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrives at a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, on September 21, 2020. (Adem Altan/AFP via Getty Images)
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Libyan protesters gather outside the offices of Muslim Brotherhood-backed Party of Justice and Construction, in the Libyan capital Tripoli on July 27, 2013 (MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev poses with a Harop drone in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan (Press Service, Republic of Azerbaijan)
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A Taliban fighter mans a machine gun mounted on a vehicle near the venue of an open-air pro-Taliban rally on the outskirts of Kabul on October 3, 2021 (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
