Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
President Barack Obama holds a copy of the Iran nuclear agreement presented to him by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi during the House Democratic Issues Conference on January 28, 2016, in Baltimore, Maryland. (Brendan Smialowski via Getty Images)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara meet during the fourth edition of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Antalya, Türkiye, on April 11, 2025. (Turkish Presidency via Getty Images)
German designated chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats, Friedrich Merz, speaks to the media the day after the Hamburg city-state election on March 3, 2025, in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
Yemenis brandish rifles and chant during a demonstration called for by the rebel Houthi movement in Sanaa on March 17, 2025. (Mohammed Huwais / AFP via Getty Images)