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)
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)
A Nigerian soldier on the back of a gun boat surveys a creek for illegal oil refineries during a patrole on April 19, 2017, in the Niger Delta region near the city of Warri. (Stefan Heunis/AFP via Getty Images)
Thousands gather at Fatih Mosque to attend 'silent scream' demonstration against Chinas persecution of Uighurs in Xinjiang, on December 20, 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 8, 2022. (Photo by Yao Dawei/Xinhua via Getty Images)
A group of pilgrim from China waves a red flag during the Pope Francis weekly general audience in St Peter Square at the Vatican on May 22, 2019. (Massimo Valicchia/NurPhoto via Getty Images)