Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sits beside Iranian officials and other leaders during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on July 30, 2024. On the first row, second to the left, is Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
US Vice President Joe Biden (L) gestures next to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a meeting at Yildiz Mabeyn Palace on January 23, 2016 in Istanbul. (SEDAT SUNA/AFP/Getty Images)
A Russian biker shows a banner depicting Joseph Stalin and reading a WWII slogan 'For the Motherland! For Stalin!' in Moscow on April 25, 2015. (DMITRY SEREBRYAKOV/AFP/Getty Images)
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a congress of the ruling United Russia party in Moscow, on September 23, 2011. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
A visitor looks at a creation by Russian artist Irina Nakhova presented at the Russia's pavilion during the 56th International Art Exhibition (Biennale d'Arte) titled 'All the Worlds Futures' on May 5, 2015 in Venice. (GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)