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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Terrorism
Terrorism
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Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, attend a mass on May 31, 2015 in Arbil, Iraq. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Displaced Assyrians at the Ibrahim-al Khalil Melkite Greek Catholic church in the Jaramana district on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 1, 2015. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)
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An Egyptian Christian mourns following a New Year's Eve car bomb attack on the Coptic church in Alexandria in which 21 people were killed, on January 2, 2011 outside the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Screenshot of ISIS fighters destroying artifacts
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A damaged painting of Jesus Christ on the ground of Syriac Orthodox Um al-Zinar church in Homs, central Syria, May 12, 2014. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Paul Marshall
Senior Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
