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![An Iranian man walks past the portraits of late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei during a flag ceremony marking Iran's Islamic Republic National Day in the Abbasabad Cultural and Tourist Area in central Tehran, on April 1, 2026.]()
![<p>After fleeing El Fasher, displaced Sudanese rest in the camp of Um Yanqur in western Darfur, November 3, 2025.</p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo and Diana Roy![An unidentified man places a national flag on the ruins of the Sharif University of Technology's data center, which was struck on April 6 during ongoing military operations in Tehran, Iran, on April 7, 2026.]()
By James M. Lindsay![Six battleships sail on open water at twilight]()
By Liana Fix and Leo Bader![<p>French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrive to the European Council summit on March 19, 2026 in Brussels, Belgium. European leaders discussed the military escalation in the Middle East and its consequences for energy prices and security, among other topics. </p>]()
By Michael Froman![Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi leaves after laying a wreath at the Mzee Jomo Kenyatta's mausoleum during his three-country African tour, as part of efforts to reduce the Islamic Republic's economic isolation.]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![An F/A-18F Super Hornet prepares to launch from the USS Abraham Lincoln during Operation Epic Fury, February 28, 2026.]()
The Strategy Gap in Iran, With Max Boot
Podcast Type![<p>Exhausted and covered in dust, a truck full of Sudanese refugees arrive on the outskirts of Oure Cassoni refugee camp in eastern Chad on November 30, 2025.</p>]()
By David J. Scheffer![Palestinians sell bread on a street beneath a destroyed building in Gaza City's Zawiya market on February 18, 2026, on the first days of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.]()
By Michael Werz![Iraqi Shiites shout slogans as they carry a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and wave Iran flags during a protest against U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran at a bridge leading to Green Zone where the U.S. embassy is located.]()
By Linda Robinson- Backgrounder
The Taliban in Afghanistan
![Members of Taliban sit on a military vehicle during Taliban military parade in Kabul]()
![<p>People sit on a pickup truck as they prepare to travel about 250 kilometers south to Adré, on the Chad-Sudan border, at a transport station in Tine, eastern Chad, on November 25, 2025. The movement comes amid the ongoing conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin- Backgrounder
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
![<p>Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel in Tehran, Iran, in September 2024.</p>]()
![<p>A man adds a tire to a burning barricade during a protest against insecurity in the Pétion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 2, 2025.</p>]()
By Natalie Caloca, Molly Carlough and Abi McGowan![WIM 251218]()
The Risk Report for 2026
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