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Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel

Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei makes a speech during his meeting with senior officials and members of the air force in Tehran, Iran on February 08, 2020. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Observations on the Islamic State in Iran

Mehdi Khalaji

Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Mehdi Khalaji

Jul 17, 2020

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Hagia Sophia

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Erdogan and His Quest for Hagia Sophia

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

Jul 17, 2020

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Transcript: Special Representatives Brian Hook and Elliott Abrams on the Evolving Tehran-Caracas Relationship

Nadia Schadlow

Senior Fellow

Nadia Schadlow

Jul 16, 2020

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The Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tharir holds its Friday prayer at the Parliament Square on March 21, 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The goal of Hizb ut Tharir is the implementation of the Islamic Sharia law. (Ole Jensen/Getty Images)

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Europe Frets, America Yawns: The Trans-Atlantic Gap on Domestic Islamism

Lorenzo Vidino

Director of the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University

Lorenzo Vidino

Jul 15, 2020

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a joint statement in the East Room of the White House on January 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

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The Trump Peace Plan – Aiming Not to Make a Deal, but to Make a Deal Possible

Lewis Libby

Former Senior Vice President

Douglas J. Feith

Senior Fellow

Lewis Libby & Douglas J. Feith

Jul 15, 2020

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2 Min Read

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R) with Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as the new government is presented after the Iranian Revolution. (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images)

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How the Iranian Revolution Inspired Turkish Islamism

Svante E. Cornell

Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

M. K. Kaya

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Central Asia-Caucasus Inst. & Silk Road Studies Program

Svante E. Cornell & M. K. Kaya

Jul 14, 2020

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Buildings damaged from fighting south of Tripoli, Libya, June 21.

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Libya’s Foul Foretaste of the Post-American World

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

Jul 8, 2020

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1 Min Read

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), wearing a protective face maks, speaks with his lawyer inside a courtroom at the district court of Jerusalem on May 24, 2020, during the first day of his corruption trial.

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Netanyahu Needs to Slice the Annexation Salami

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

Jul 1, 2020

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech following a cabinet meeting, in Ankara, on June 9, 2020.

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Erdogan’s Agenda: Neo-Ottoman Ambition or Pan-Islamist Zeal?

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

Jun 28, 2020

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Mourners carry the coffins of slain Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and eight others during a funeral procession in Iraq on January 4, 2020. (Photo by MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP via Getty Images)

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Qassem Soleimani’s Fall and the Battle Inside Iraq to Come

Ranj Alaaldin

Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center, Director of the Proxy Wars Initiative, Carnegie Corporation

Ranj Alaaldin

Jun 25, 2020

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The Hagia Sophia, which was rebuilt for the final time in AD 537 during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Until 1453, it served as the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Turkey Is Moving Toward A Neo-Ottoman Regime With Calls To Convert Hagia Sophia