Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (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)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
A Taliban fighter mans a machine gun mounted on a vehicle near the venue of an open-air pro-Taliban rally on the outskirts of Kabul on October 3, 2021 (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)
U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots load passengers aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Afghanistan, Aug. 24, 2021 (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen)
Taliban fighters on a pick-up truck move around a market area, flocked with local Afghan people at the Kote Sangi area of Kabul on August 17, 2021, after Taliban seized control of the capital following the collapse of the Afghan government (Photo by HOSHA
U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots load passengers aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III (Photo by Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Forces Europe-Africa via Getty Images)
An American soldier watches over South Vietnamese refugees on a U.S. Navy boat off the coast of Vietnam, May 5, 1975. (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES)