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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iraqi Christians walk past a decorations displayed in commemoration of the Elevation of the Holy Cross festival on September 14, 2014, in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani women protest in Lahore on November 21, 2010 in support of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother given the death sentence. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
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This handout image supplied by the Iran International Photo Agency shows a view of 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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Malala Yousafzai waves to the crowd at a press conference at the Library of Birmingham after being announced as a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, on October 10, 2014 in Birmingham, England. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Policemen survey the area where a man tried to shoot Lars Hedegaard, February 5, 2013 in Copenhagen. (CLAUS BECH/AFP/Getty Images)
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Alleged Islamic State (IS) militants stand next to an IS flag atop a hill in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, on October 6, 2014. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Josh Block
Adjunct Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
