An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A protester flashes victory signs as traffic slows during demonstrations in Hamedan, Iran, on January 1, 2026. The demonstrations erupted after shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar shut their businesses to protest the sharp fall of Iran’s currency and worsening economic conditions. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Pakistani security forces stands guard outside the headquarters of Axact, a software firm during raids by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Karachi, Pakistan, on May 27, 2015. (Qaisar Khan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Pakistani media personnel and local residents gather outside the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani greeted by Prime Minisyer Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee on April 28, 2015 in New Delhi, India. (Arvind Yadav/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to Pakistani children as his Pakistani counterpart Mamnoon Hussain (L) and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (C, back) look on, upon arrival at Islamabad airport in Islamabad, on April 20, 2015. (Photo by (Pakistan P
U.S. Marine Corps pilots from Marine Light Attack Helicopter Training Squadron 303, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing maneuver a AH-1Z Viper, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California (USA), December 19, 2008. (Wikimedia)
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) during a joint press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada on April 15, 2015. (Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images)
New recruits training under the authority of Abdul Rehman, allegedly part of the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist militant group, Mattani, Pakistan, December 22, 2009.(Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images)