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)
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)
Wang Yi a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China CPC Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee holds talks with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 26, 2024. (Wang Teng/Xinhua via Getty Images)
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing at a railway station on January 6, 2024, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
Armed rebels of the Iran-backed Houthi militia ride a pick-up truck during a demonstration against the United States and Israel on January 29, 2024, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Osamah Yahya via Getty Images)
Landing Craft Utility 1659 enters the well deck of the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall in the Atlantic Ocean on January 26, 2024. (Danielle Serocki via DVIDS)