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China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People on April 21, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with several top Arab diplomats in Amman, Jordan, to discuss ongoing developments in the Gaza Strip on November 4, 2023. (Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, attached to the "Fighting Swordsmen" of Strike Fighter Squadron 32, takes off from the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) on July 10, 2023, in the Atlantic Ocean. (DVIDS)
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The Rubymar cargo ship sinking off the coast of Yemen, damaged in a missile strike by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels on February 25, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Seven sympathizers of the Daesh terror organization undergo trial in the District Court of West Jakarta, January 21, 2016. (Azqa Harun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Thousands of Houthi supporters gather at Sebin Square to stage a solidarity demonstration with Palestinians and protest against the Israeli attacks on Gaza on February 9, 2024, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud via Getty Images)
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Iranian missiles exhibited in a park on January 20, 2024, in Tehran, Iran. (Majid Saeedi via Getty Images)
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Youth activists of Muslim Talba Mahaz shout slogans during a protest against Iranian air strikes. (Raja Imran Bahadert via Getty Images)
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A sign depicting a cutout of the Bahamas-flagged cargo vessel Galaxy Leader is raised by a protester behind a man carrying a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher during a pro-Palestinian rally in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on February 7, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images)
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Members of the Security Council listen as Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a meeting on the Israel-Hamas war at United Nations headquarters on October 30, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
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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
