In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan rally outside the White House in Washington, DC on July 17, 2016. (Photo: YURI GRIPAS/AFP/Getty Images)
A Foreign Affairs ministers session on the second day of NATO ministerial meetings at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on December 2, 2015. (JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images)
The graffiti tagged on the wall of a house in the Iraqi city of Mosul, July 26, 2014. It reads in Arabic : 'Real estate property of the Islamic State (IS)'. (AFP/Getty Images)
Iraqi Christian children, who fled the violence in the Nineveh province, attend a mass with their mothers at a chuch in Dekwaneh, east of the Lebanese capital Beirut on March 21, 2015. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
Police officers and rescue workers stand near a van that ploughed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice on July 14, 2016. (VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images)