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)
The Syrian flag flying in front of the dome of the Syrian Saint Sarkis Church for Armenian Orthodox in Damascus on January 6, 2015. (LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)
Egyptian Coptic Christians attend a memorial ceremony for relatives murdered by Islamic State group militants in Libya, on February 16, 2015, in the village of al-Awar in Egypt's southern province of Minya. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi Christian fleeing the violence in the towns of Qaraqush and Bartala prays at the Saint George church on July 1, 2014 in the Kurdish autonomous region's capital Arbil. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)
People demonstrate outside the offices of the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on January 6, 2014 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. (MOHAMMED WESAM/AFP/Getty Images)
A catholic reads the Bible at the temporary Bailu Township Church on December 24, 2008 in Pengzhou of Sichuan Province, China. (China Photos/Getty Images)
Raymond Joseph stands outside the Haitian embassy in Washington, DC, on January 19, 2010, following a candle light vigil one week after a massive earthquake destroyed Port-au-Prince. (Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images)