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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (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)
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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
