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Middle East
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![Mourners carry the coffins of the victims of the blast at the Coptic Christian Saint Mark's church in Alexandria on April 10, 2017. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13536/feature_20170414_tadros_getty_images_666791830.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=f56BISIA)
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Mourners carry the coffins of the victims of the blast at the Coptic Christian Saint Mark's church in Alexandria on April 10, 2017. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at an exclusive interview with AFP in the capital Damascus on February 11, 2016. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
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![An Egyptian raises a cross made of palm leaves, originally intended for Palm Sunday celebrations, as he is being lifted by others at the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in Alexandria, April 9, 2017. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13533/feature_20170412_tadros_getty_images_666534558.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=0mjesqzX)
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An Egyptian raises a cross made of palm leaves, originally intended for Palm Sunday celebrations, as he is being lifted by others at the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in Alexandria, April 9, 2017. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
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DigitalGlobe imagery of the Shayrat Air Base outside of Homs, Syria. Closeup-1, April 7, 2016. (Photo DigitalGlobe/Getty Images)
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![US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he walks to Marine One at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 18, 2017. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13521/feature_20170419_radosh_getty_images_669949246.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=jYvQucO3)
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US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he walks to Marine One at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 18, 2017. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
![The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/Released)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13517/feature_20170408_wrm170407_n_ji086_301_jpg.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=Pfaw7qGp)
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/Released)