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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
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A Syrian man casts his ballot in front of a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a polling station in Damascus on February 26, 2012 (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
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Franciscan fryers in the traditional Palm Sunday procession from Mt. Olives to Jerusalem's Old City on April 13, 2014. (GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd-R) meets with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (R) in the Jordanian capital Amman, on March 26, 2014. (JACQUELYN MARTIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Christian priest inspects the damages inside a church in the ancient Christian town of Maalula, northeast of Damascus on April 14, 2014 AFP/Getty Images)
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Security forces patrol as people arrive at the Adly Synagogue for the funeral of the president of the Egyptian Jewish Community Carmen Weinstein on April 18, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Egyptians look at a row of portraits of Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Alexandria, Egypt (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Israeli paratroopers, December 28, 2010 in Negev desert near Beer Sheva, Israel (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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Members of the Pakistan Christian Democratic alliance march during a protest in Lahore on December 25, 2010, in support of Asia Bibi (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
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Saudi (green) and US flags flutter on light poles on June 2, 2009 in preparation for the visit of US President Barack Obama on June 3. (MIDO AHMED/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Ahmad Hashemi
Research Fellow
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Hessen
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Rania Kisar
Research Fellow
Liel Leibovitz
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Mike Watson
Associate Director, Center for the Future of Liberal Society
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
