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)
Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a rally for the 10th anniversary of the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD) at Albert-Schultz-Hall in Vienna, Austria on June 19, 2014. (Kayhan Ozer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
A woman looking for some of her belongings is seen trough the hole in the wall of destroyed apartment building in Pechatniki district of Moscow, September 9, 1999. (ALEXANDER MEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)
Russian BMD-4M Sadovnitsa infantry fighting vehicles roll at Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2016. (VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP/Getty Images)
Map of Sykes–Picot Agreement showing Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia, and areas of control and influence agreed between the British and the French, Royal Geographical Society. (Wikimedia)
US President Barack Obama delivers remarks after laying a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park as Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) looks on, in Hiroshima on May 27, 2016. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about his foreign policy positions during an event sponsored by The Center for the National Interest, at The Mayflower Hotel, in Washington, Wednesday, April 27, 2016. (Al Drago/CQ Roll Call)