Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes US Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner before their talks in Moscow on September 5, 2026. (Getty Images)
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)
Flowers are placed in front of a portrait of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on December 20, 2016, a day after his assassination in the Turkish capital. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G8 summit at the Lough Erne resort near Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson speaks at a discussion organized by the Economic Club of Washington, in Washington, DC on March 12, 2015. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S. President Barack Obama with King Salman bin Abd alAziz of Saudi Arabia during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House September 4, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen waves to supporters during a rally campaign ahead of the Taiwanese presidential election on January 15, 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)