
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense


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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei speaks as part of the forty-fourth anniversary events of the Iranian Revolution in Tehran, Iran on February 8, 2023. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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A Pakistani solider involved in an ongoing operation against Taliban fighters in northwest Pakistan on May 22, 2009. (Al Jazeera English via Flickr)

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(Screenshot via Arirang News/YouTube)
In the Media

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Vladimir Putin. (Kremlin)

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Members of the US Army's 11th Airborne Division and the Indian Army's 71st Mountain Brigade stand at parade rest during a rehearsal prior to the closing ceremony for bilateral training exercise Yudh Abhyas 2022 in Auli, India, on December 2, 2022. (US Army Photo by Christopher Dennis)

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Policemen stand guard along a street in Peshawar, Pakistan, on February 1, 2023. (Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images)

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Seized marijuana bricks are incinerated in Guadalajara, Mexico, on March 23, 2018. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier with an assault rifle stands amid wreckage as debris lie in the garage at a trolleybus depot on January 27, 2023, in Bakhmut, Ukraine. (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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In the Media

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The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain transit the South China Sea on November 4, 2021. (US Navy photo by Tyler R. Fraser)

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Hundreds of pounds of seized fentanyl and meth in Tijuana, Mexico, on October 18, 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 conduct pre-dive checks during recovery efforts of a high-altitude balloon in the Atlantic Ocean on February 7, 2023. (US Navy photo by Ryan Seelbach)