An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania Oana-SilviaȚoiu speaks during a joint press conference with the minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine on August 7, 2025, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (R) at Parliament House in Canberra on July 8, 2014. (MARK GRAHAM/AFP/Getty Images)
Japanese Ground Self Defense Force honor guards hold national flags for visiting US Army General Martin E. Dempsey at the Defence Ministry in Tokyo on October 28, 2011. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)
A Palestinian youth take part in military-inspired exercises organised by the Islamist movement Hamas on June 19, 2014 in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hands with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai during a meeting in New Delhi on May 27, 2014.(RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi Kurds hold the Kurdish flag and a poster of Iraqi Kurdistan's regional president Masoud Barzani (R) in Akra, Iraq's, March 20, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon (R) and Armenia's President Serzh Sarkisian of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) at the Kremlin in Moscow, on May 8, 2014. (SERGEI KARPUKHIN/AFP/Getty Images)