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)
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)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes part in a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in the Thomas Jefferson Room of the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, China, on April 26, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol speaks during the United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
A model of Iran's first-ever hypersonic missile, the Fattah, next to a mosque in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2024. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Infantry soldiers from the Givati brigade of the Israel Defense Forces train with new, high-tech weapons and computers at the army's urban warfare training base on March 22, 2005, in southern Israel. (Photo by Yael Bar Hillal/IDF via Getty Images)
President Xi Jinping speaks during a toast at an official state dinner as part of the Chinese president's two-day state visit to France on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic Marin/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)