An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A protester flashes victory signs as traffic slows during demonstrations in Hamedan, Iran, on January 1, 2026. The demonstrations erupted after shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar shut their businesses to protest the sharp fall of Iran’s currency and worsening economic conditions. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Hudson President and CEO John Walters and Senator Roger Wicker at the NATO Public Forum on July 10, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Madeline Yarbrough)
A general view of the NATO's seventy-fifth anniversary commemoration event in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2024. (Turkish Presidency/Murat Kula/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
German Soldiers conduct air assault operations from a German NH90 helicopter during the joint Romanian-US military operation in Cincu, Romania, on May 15, 2024. (US Army video by Staff Sgt. Ashley Low via DVIDS)
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states leaders' summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 3, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Guneyev/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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)