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)
President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Graffiti with the first letter of the world 'Nasara', the word used in the Koran for Christians, and 'Real estate property of the Islamic State (IS)' in Arabic, on a church in Mosul, July 26, 2014. (AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi Yazidi women who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar sit in the Kurdish city of Dohuk on August 5, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/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 Arbil.(KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi Christians attend Sunday mass at the Virgin Mary Chaldean church in the Karrada neighborhood of the capital Baghdad on July 27, 2014. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow on February 26, 2014. (MIKHAIL METZEL/AFP/Getty Images)
Israeli residents and relatives take cover from a rocket attack from Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip in Netivot on July 29, 2014. (GIL COHEN MAGEN/AFP/Getty Images)