Iran Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defense Ministers' Meeting on June 26, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Fu Tian via Getty Images)
Vehicles waiting to be loaded onto roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ships for export on August 12, 2025, in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. (Getty Images)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
Clashes erupt between Georgian police and protesters on the second day of protest against "foreign agents" bill, in Tblisi, Geogia on March 08, 2023 (David Mdzinarishvili via Getty Images)
Muslims living and visiting the capital perform their prayers at the Moscow Central Mosque, on September 1, 2025, in Moscow. (Metin Aktas via Getty Images)
Somali National Army soldiers escort members of the press to hideouts used by the terrorist group al-Shabaab in the Sabiid-Aanole areas of Somalia on June 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
Director of Research and Senior Africa and Senior Terrorism/Transnational Crime Analyst, Foreign Military Studies Office
Jason Warner
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Protesters shout "Allahu akbar" at media cameras gathered outside the radical Musa Mosque in Mombasa, Kenya, following days of riots sparked by the assassination of cleric Aboud Rogo, on August 27, 2012. (Alan Boswell via Getty Images)
A police officer walks beside a burnt prison vehicle in Abuja, Nigeria, on July 6, 2022, after suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked the Kuje Medium Prison. (Kola Sulaimon via Getty Images)
Director, Centre for African Conflict and Development
Michael Nwankpa
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Puntland Maritime Police Forces are patrolling against the recently increasing pirate attacks off the coast in Puntland, Somalia on January 29, 2024. (Abuukar Mohamed via Getty Images)
Pakistani Christian Perveen Bibi weeps outside the torched Saint John Church in Jaranwala on the outskirts of Faisalabad on August 17, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi via Getty Images)
Mourners carry the coffins of slain Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, during a funeral procession on January 4, 2020. (Mohammed Sawaf via Getty Images)
Worshippers take part in a fitness session after prayer in a mosque of the Bagcilar district in Istanbul on February 8, 2024. (Yasin Akgul via Getty Images)
A member of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service raises the victory gesture as others hold upside-down the black flag of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, on June 30, 2017. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)
Gloria and Ken Levy Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Aaron Y Zelin
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Afghan security forces patrol during ongoing clashes between security forces and Islamic State militants in eastern Nangarhar province on July 26, 2016. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images)