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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
International Organizations
International Organizations
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Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. (Chris Tobin)
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Syrian internally displaced people walk in the Atme camp, along the Turkish border in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, on March 19, 2013. (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
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Flags of the European Union member states hang inside the Council of the European Union's Lex building on February 18, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses citizens outside his residence at Kisikli Neighborhood following the failed coup attempt, in Istanbul, Turkey on July 16, 2016. (Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 20, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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The opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 5, 2016. (FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
John Fonte
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for American Common Culture
