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A flag of the United Nations flies at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on August 14, 2025. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement on Daesh and Genocide in the Press Briefing Room at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2016. [State Department/Flickr]
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U.S. aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing 9 launch from the flight deck of the USS John C. Stennis in the Pacific Ocean, May 1, 2015. (DoD/Released)
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Israel, Jerusalem (Yerushalayim), old town, Temple Mount, Dome of Rock or Mosque of Omar, 1999 (DEA / W. BUSS/De Agostini/Getty Images)
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A Kurdish refugee mother and son from the Syrian town of Kobani walk beside their tent in a camp on the Turkish-Syrian border on October 19, 2014 in Sanliurfa, Turkey. (Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images)
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A Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor is launched from the USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the mid-Pacific, May 16, 2013. (U.S. Missile Defense Agency)
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A man watches a news report on North Korea's planned rocket launch at a railway station in Seoul on February 3, 2016. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
