F-16 Fighting Falcon aircrafts are prepared for a mission during Operation Noble Defender at Pittufik Space Base in Greenland on January 30, 2025. (US Air Force)
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)
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs Priti Patel MP listens during a press conference on May 19, 2025, in London, England. (Getty Images)
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar meets with Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on January 6, 2026. (Getty Images)
A Ukrainian soldier with rifle walks in a residential district damaged by shelling on May 31, 2023, in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine. (Yan Dobronosov via Getty Images)
Vladimir Putin greets nuclear weapons developer Yuri Barmakov during the State Awarding Ceremony at the Grand Kremlin Palace on June 12, 2022, in Moscow. (via Getty Images)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers the keynote address during the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom in the Loy Henderson Auditorium of the State Department in Washington, DC, on July 18, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin oversees the training of the strategic deterrence forces in Moscow on October 26, 2022. (Alexei Babushkin/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
A destroyed building of a medical facility, the site of a Russian missile strike that killed at least two people, in Dnipro, Ukraine, on May 26, 2023. (Vitalii Matokha/AFP via Getty Images)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Joe Biden shake hands at the start of the first plenary session of the NATO summit in Madrid on June 29, 2022. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden delivers a brief update of the ongoing negotiations over the debt limit in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on May 17, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)