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)
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)
A Taliban security personnel holds his gun near the Qargha lake on the outskirts of Kabul on July 4, 2024. (Photo by Wakil Koshar / AFP via Getty Images)
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and French President Emmanuel Macron at the NATO Summit on July 12, 2023, in Vilnius, Lithuania (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping is greeted by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as he arrives in Ferihegy, Hungary, on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Vivien Cher Benko/AFP via Getty Images)
Patrons attend a watch party for the first presidential debate of the 2024 presidential elections in San Francisco, California, on June 27, 2024. (Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)