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In this U.S. Navy released handout, U.S. Sailors prepare to stage ordnance on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in support of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026 at Sea.

Middle East & North Africa America shouldn’t let go of the Middle East

Philip H. Gordon

October 16, 2026

A U.S. Army 3rd Division 3-7 Infantry soldiers take cover after taking fire during a search and destroy mission March 27, 2003 near the town of An Najaf, Iraq.

U.S. Defense Policy What was the war on terror?

Philip H. Gordon

August 18, 2026

A man rides a motorcycle past a banner displayed at Valiasr Square in central Tehran on March 10, 2026, depicting Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) watching as his successor the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C) hands over a national flag to his son and new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

Iran The Third Islamic Republic

Suzanne Maloney

April 1, 2026

Members and officers from the Iraqi Interior Ministry's Explosives Directorate inspect the fuel tank of a rocket that landed in a rural village in the Siyahi area, near the city of Hillah in the central Babil province, Iraq, March 1, 2026.

Iraq Iraq must not be a staging ground for war with Iran

Marsin Alshamary, Hamzeh Hadad

March 5, 2026

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Marsin Alshamary

Marsin Alshamary Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Steven Heydemann

Steven Heydemann Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

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