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Lightning occurs when META 4, an oil products tanker, sails into Muscat Anchorage on March 21, 2026, at Sultan Qaboos Port in Muscat, Oman. (Getty Images)

A NATO flag flies at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on September 12, 2025. (Getty Images)

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Black smoke billows from an Israeli air strike on an alleged pro-Iranian Hezbollah target in southern Beirut on March 4, 2026. (Getty Images)

A cargo ship docked at Port Aktau, Kazakhstan, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)

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)

Luke Coffey and Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Olga Stefanishyna at Hudson Institute on February 23, 2026.

President Donald Trump speaks during the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace on February 19, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)

US Vice President JD Vance speaks during a joint press conference with Armenian Prime Minister following their talks in Yerevan on February 9, 2026. (Getty Images)

The Ukrainian Motherland Monument is seen in Kyiv on June 3, 2025. (Getty Images)

Vice President JD Vance and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev shake hands at the Zagulba Presidential Residence on February 10, 2026 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Getty Images)

A US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber taxis on the flightline after a combat mission at Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, on April 14, 2025. (US Air Force)