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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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Outside a police station in Al-Hawari district of Benghazi, Libya on May 2, 2014. (Mohammed Elshaiky/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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An Egyptian Coptic boy looks down from the roof of the Bishoy Monastery in Beheira province, 150 kms northwest of Cairo. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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A group of Egyptians stage demonstration against Egypt's el-Sisi government at Cairo University in Giza, Egypt on April 19, 2015. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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The reactor building at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant as the first fuel is loaded, on August 21, 2010 in Bushehr, southern Iran. (IIPA via Getty Images)
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the Ethiopian National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on March 24, 2015. (Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport on March, 20, 2013 near Tel Aviv, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
