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A 49.5-megawatt data center is under construction on April 14, 2026, in Vernon, California. (Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
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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)
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People take part in a celebration after Michel Aoun elected as a President during the Parliamentary session, in Beirut, Lebanon on October 31, 2016. (Ratib Al Safadi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Israeli navy vessels patrolling the Mediterranean Sea, July 9, 2014. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
