Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance fires a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile in support of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026. (US Navy)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Tanzanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation Mahmoud Thabit Kombo in Hunan, China on June 10, 2025. (Getty Images)
Somali National Army soldiers escort members of the press to hideouts used by the terrorist group al-Shabaab in the Sabiid-Aanole areas of Somalia on June 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
Protesters shout "Allahu akbar" at media cameras gathered outside the radical Musa Mosque in Mombasa, Kenya, following days of riots sparked by the assassination of cleric Aboud Rogo, on August 27, 2012. (Alan Boswell via Getty Images)
A member of the Yan Sakai vigilante group poses for a portrait at the Zamfara state government house on December 3, 2019, in northwestern Nigeria. (Kola Sulaimon via Getty Images)