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)
Members of China's thirteenth Arctic Ocean scientific expedition team conduct a sampling operation aboard China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2 on August 6, 2023. (Wei Hongyi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Joe Biden at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, India, on September 9, 2023. (Press Information Bureau/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' week in Woodside, California, on November 15, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)