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)
An F/A-18 Hornet pilot prepares for take off during joint military exercise, Saxon Warrior, aboard the USS George H.W. Bush on August 6, 2017 off the north west coast of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Afghan security forces and investigators gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack outside a British security firm's compound in Kabul on November 30, 2018. At least 10 people were killed. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP/Getty Images)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech at the opening session of the Paris Peace Forum, November 11, 2018, in Paris, France. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)