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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
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Musa, a 25-year-old Kurdish marksman, stands atop a building as he looks at the destroyed Syrian town of Kobane on January 30, 2015. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement on Daesh and Genocide in the Press Briefing Room at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2016. [State Department/Flickr]
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Israel, Jerusalem (Yerushalayim), old town, Temple Mount, Dome of Rock or Mosque of Omar, 1999 (DEA / W. BUSS/De Agostini/Getty Images)
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A Kurdish refugee mother and son from the Syrian town of Kobani walk beside their tent in a camp on the Turkish-Syrian border on October 19, 2014 in Sanliurfa, Turkey. (Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images)
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A long-range Qadr ballistic missile is launched in the Alborz mountain range in northern Iran on March 9, 2016. (MAHMOOD HOSSEINI/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
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
