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)
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)
Chinese President Xi Jinping with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary, on May 9, 2024. (Photo by Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes part in a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in the Thomas Jefferson Room of the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Firefighters work on the site of a fire on May 4, 2024, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Viacheslav Mavrychev/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC "UA:PBC"/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
President Xi Jinping speaks during a toast at an official state dinner as part of the Chinese president's two-day state visit to France on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic Marin/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)