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)
Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst, Tech Against Terrorism
Riccardo Valle
Researcher focused on jihadism, armed groups, and politics in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
Lucas Webber & Riccardo Valle
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Militants of The Movement for the Salvation of Azawad stand on a dune in the deserted area of the Meneka region in Mali during an anti jihadist patrol on February 4, 2018. (Souleymane Ag Anara/AFP via Getty Images)
Huthi soldiers march during an official military parade marking the ninth anniversary of the Huthi takeover of the capital Sanaa, on September 21, 2023. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images)
Senior Research Fellow, Program on Extremism at The George Washington University
Sergio Altuna Galán
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People stand on the debris of the house which was razed to ground during the gunfight between militants and Indian security forces in Drangbal area of Pampore in south Kashmir on October 16, 2021. (Faisal Khan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A fully veiled woman walks with her daughter as civilians fleeing the Islamic State's group embattled holdout of Baghouz gather in a field on February 13, 2019, in Deir Ezzor, Syria. (Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images)
Independent Researcher, Terrorism and Insurgency in South Asia
Meili Criezis
Graduate Research Assistant at the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab, PhD student at American University
Suraj Ganesan & Meili Criezis
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Destroyed vehicles and damaged buildings in the village of Baghouz in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province near the Iraqi border a day after the Islamic State group's "caliphate" was declared defeated by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces on March 24, 2029. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images)
Arabic translator, Editor at Castlereagh Associates
Charlie Winter
Director of Research, Extrac
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi & Charlie Winter
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A mural of Mahsa Amini showing support for the people of Iran is presented by artist Scott Marsh, on November 4, 2022, in Sydney, Australia. (Saverio Marfia via Getty Images)
UC Foundation Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Saeid Golkar
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A man walking past shops burnt down by suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province during an attack in Auno on February 9, 2020. (Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images)