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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
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Middle East
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An Egyptian Christian mourns following a New Year's Eve car bomb attack on the Coptic church in Alexandria in which 21 people were killed, on January 2, 2011 outside the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Screenshot of ISIS fighters destroying artifacts
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A damaged painting of Jesus Christ on the ground of Syriac Orthodox Um al-Zinar church in Homs, central Syria, May 12, 2014. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama (C-L) is greeted by then-Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (C-R) upon his arrival at Rawdat Khurayim on March 28, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iran, addresses the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons April 27, 2015 at the UN, New York. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Armenians at the genocide monument to their kin killed by Ottoman Turks during World War I in Yerevan late in on April 23, 2012. (KAREN MINASYAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden at the White House April 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Women attend a religious service at the cathedral in Etchmiadzin, outside Yerevan, on April 23, 2015. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)
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Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
