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)
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un visiting the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur region on September 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu at a meeting ceremony in North Korea on July 25, 2023. (Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation via Wikimedia Commons)
A grass-camouflaged serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine takes part in a training with UAV operators on June 15, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Andriy Zhyhaylo/Obozrevatel/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
A destroyed Russian tank sits in a snow covered wheat field in Kharkiv region amid Russia's military invasion on Ukraine on February 22, 2023. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers in a 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer on the front line near Toretsk, Ukraine, on August 2, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
People light candles to the portrait of politician and warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin at an informal memorial for PMC Wagner Group at Varvarka street near the Kremlin on August 24, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Contributor via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the new toll section of the M-4 Don highway at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 15, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)