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An aerial view of a container ship arriving at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025, in Oakland, California. (Getty Images)
Middle East
Middle East
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Domiz refugee camp, 20 km southeast of the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, on June 19, 2013. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Rockets being fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza strip into Israel, August 20, 2014.(DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/Getty Images)
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Displaced Iraqi Christians sleep inside of Saint Joseph's church after having to flee their district on June 26, 2014 in Erbil, Iraq. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
In the Media
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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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Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
