Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
FARDC (Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo) soldiers escort civilian vehicles transporting goods from Beni toward Komanda on March 19, 2022. (Photo by Sebastien Kitsa Musayi/AFP via Getty Images)
Members of the Taliban gather to commemorate the one year anniversary of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in Kabul on August 21, 2022. (Marcus Yam via Getty Images)
A man suspected of taking part in the attack of a concert hall that killed 137 people is escorted by Russian law enforcement officers at the Basmanny District Court in Moscow on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images)
One of the suspects of the deadly terror attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia, on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Demonstrators in support of Israel gather to denounce antisemitism and call for the release of Israeli hostages in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2023. (Stefani Reynolds via Getty Images)
Pakistani President Arif Alvi administers the oath to newly sworn-in Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 4, 2024. (Pakistan President House/AFP via Getty Images)