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The New Department of War logo at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on September 15, 2025. (Getty Images)
Terrorism
Terrorism
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Atef's grandchildren present on their right wrist the tattoo of a blue cross, a sign of their belonging to the Copts of Egypt, Cairo, November 9, 2010. (Alvaro Canovas/Paris Match via Getty Images)
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A nun reacts to the scene of a bomb explosion at the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church on December 11, 2016, in Cairo's Abbasiya neighbourhood. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Broken windows are seen after an explosion at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt on December 11, 2016. (Ahmed Gamil /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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A crucifix is seen hanging as Egyptians attend a candle vigil on December 17, 2016 outside the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iraqi Christians attend a Christmas mass at the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Deliverance/Salvation (Sayidat al-Nejat), in central Baghdad, on December 25, 2015. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov speaks to media in Moscow, Russia on November 15, 2016. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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An Afghan security personnel keeps watch near the largest US military base in Bagram, 50 km north of Kabul, after an explosion on November 12, 2016. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Foreign Ministers from China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, Britain, and the US on July 14, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. (Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images)
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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)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
