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)
A soldier from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force carries an 84mm Carl Gustav rocket launcher during Exercise Iron Fist 2014, a joint-exercise with US Marines and sailors at Camp Pendleton on February 9, 2014. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an annual meeting with high ranking officers of the Defence Ministry Board on December 11, 2015 in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
Libyans take part in a demonstration in the capital Tripoli on July 31, 2014, calling for international intervention to protect civilians. (MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images)
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki (L) and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shake hands during a meeting in Tehran held by the Palestine Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on August 4, 2014. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
Syrians hold pictures of re-elected Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus after Assad was announced as the winner of the country's presidential elections on June 4, 2014. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (R) in the garden at the Turkish ambassador's residence in Paris, July 26, 2014. (CHARLES DHARAPAK/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) and US Secretary of State John Kerry meet at the Prime Minister's Office in Baghdad on June 23, 2014. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)