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)
Japan's Self-Defense Forces 1st Airborne Brigade conduct descent training with allies US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Philippines on January 7, 2024, at Camp Narashino training area in Tokyo, Japan. (David Mareuil/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Landing Craft Utility 1659 enters the well deck of the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall in the Atlantic Ocean on January 26, 2024. (Danielle Serocki via DVIDS)
Russian Patriarch Kirill leads a Christmas service in Christ the Saviour cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on January 6, 2018. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees Pakistan activists protest in Lahore after Iran launched an airstrike in Pakistan's south-west Baluchistan province on January 19, 2024. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)
Soldiers at the training ground calibrate their weapons after going into combat against the positions of the Russian army on January 12, 2024, in Lyman district, Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers patrol with a Bradley Fighting vehicle as the Russia-Ukraine war continues in Avdiivka Donbas, Ukraine, on December 4, 2023. (Marek M. Berezowski/Anadolu via Getty Images)