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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
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A Christian priest inspects the damages inside a church in the ancient Christian town of Maalula, northeast of Damascus on April 14, 2014 AFP/Getty Images)
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Security forces patrol as people arrive at the Adly Synagogue for the funeral of the president of the Egyptian Jewish Community Carmen Weinstein on April 18, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Egyptians look at a row of portraits of Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Alexandria, Egypt (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Israeli paratroopers, December 28, 2010 in Negev desert near Beer Sheva, Israel (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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Members of the Pakistan Christian Democratic alliance march during a protest in Lahore on December 25, 2010, in support of Asia Bibi (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
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Saudi (green) and US flags flutter on light poles on June 2, 2009 in preparation for the visit of US President Barack Obama on June 3. (MIDO AHMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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President Obama and Saudi Arabian King Abdullah Bin-Abd-al-Aziz Al Saud, Oval Office of the White House, June 29, 2010, Washington, DC (Roger L. Wollenberg-Pool/Getty Images)
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President Obama with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Oval Office of the White House March 17, 2014 in Washington, DC (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Yarmouk refugee camp, Damascus, January 31, 2014 (UNRWA via Getty Images)
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Rebel fighters inspecting the wreckage of a Syrian army helicopter after Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)'s fighters allegedly destroyed it when they left the Meng Military Airport, Aleppo, March 1, 2014 (MOHAMMED AL-KHATIEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
