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A man walks near the headquarters of the Russian Central Bank in Moscow on February 13, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Pope Francis is welcomed by a dove's flight as he arrives in Najaf for a meeting with Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Al-Husayni Al-Sistani on March 06, 2021 in Najaf, Iraq. (Vatican Pool via Getty Images)
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The windows of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality building illuminated with the word "Peace" on September 15, 2020 to celebrate the signing of the landmark Israeli normalisation deals with the UAE and Bahrain. (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates arrived September 15, 2020 at the White House to sign historic accords normalizing ties between the Jewish and Arab states. (SAUL LOEB/AFP)
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People are seen fleeing as heavy smoke rises above the Islamic State (IS) group's last remaining position in the village of Baghouz during battles with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
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Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire and fugitive leader of the terrorist group al Qaeda, explains why he has declared a "jihad" or holy war against the United States on August 20, 1998 from a cave hideout somewhere in Afghanistan.
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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about his racial equity agenda in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 26, 2021 in Washington, DC
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John Kerry, America’s secretary of state at the time, arrives at Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 24, 2015.
Experts
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
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
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
