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The logo of Japan's largest steel manufacturer Nippon Steel corporation is seen in front of the company's head office in Tokyo on January 7, 2025. (David Marueil/ via Getty Images)
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(L-R) Sir Winston Churchill & Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower. (George Skadding/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 15, 2015. (SERGEI KARPUKHIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Syrian internally displaced people walk in the Atme camp, along the Turkish border in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, on March 19, 2013. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
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A pump jack and surface water at oil well and fracking site in Shafter, over the Monterey Shale, San Joaquin Valley, California. (Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/UIG via Getty Images)
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World leaders and dignitaries attend the funeral of the former Israeli leader Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl Cemetery on September 30, 2016 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO via Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama answers a question on Syria during a joint press conference with Swedish Prime Minister in Stockholm on September 4, 2013. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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Israeli President Shimon Peres in the President house on April 10, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and US Secretary of State John Kerry talking during an International Syria Support Group meeting at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel. (Valery Sharifulin\TASS via Getty Images)
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Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 22, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Experts
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
