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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Middle East
Middle East
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Reinaldo Arenas poses while at home in Paris, France during June of 1988. (Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)
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Foreign Ministers from China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, Britain, and the US on July 14, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. (Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images)
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Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, pray during a Christmas mass in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq on December 24, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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A flag flying at an undisclosed location in Iran next to a surface-to-surface Qiam-1 (Rising) missile, August 20, 2010. (VAHID REZA ALAEI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visits the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City on December 20, 2013. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
