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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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Egyptian students who support the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes following a demonstration outside Cairo University on March 26, 2014. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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The Syrian flag flying in front of the dome of the Syrian Saint Sarkis Church for Armenian Orthodox in Damascus on January 6, 2015. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)
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An image made available by propaganda Islamist media outlet Welayat Tarablos on February 18, allegedly shows members of the Islamic State militant group parading in a street in Libya's coastal city of Sirte. (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES)
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Egyptian Coptic Christians attend a memorial ceremony for relatives murdered by Islamic State group militants in Libya, on February 16, 2015, in the village of al-Awar in Egypt's southern province of Minya. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Iraqi Christian fleeing the violence in the towns of Qaraqush and Bartala prays at the Saint George church on July 1, 2014 in the Kurdish autonomous region's capital Arbil. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Spent bullet shells litter the ground as a member of the Islamist-linked militia of Misrata walks past following three days of battles in the area of Tripoli's International airport, on August 21, 2014. (MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Iranian flag flutters next to a ground-to-ground Sajil missile before being launched at an undisclosed location in Iran on November 12, 2008. (-/AFP/Getty Images)
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Jordanian students shout slogans and wave flags on February 5, 2015 in the capital Amman during a rally against the Islamic state (IS) group and in reaction to the burning alive of Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh. (KHALIL MAZRAAWI/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
