Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sits beside Iranian officials and other leaders during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on July 30, 2024. On the first row, second to the left, is Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Alleged Islamic State (IS) militants stand next to an IS flag atop a hill in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, on October 6, 2014. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (C) delivers a speech as part of the annual Army Day military parade on April 18, 2014 in Tehran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
President Obama with Defense Secretary Hagel (3rd L), U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Odienaro (2nd L), Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Welsh (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dempsey (R), May 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty)
Destroyed ammunition is stored in a container during a press day at the GEKA facility on March 5, 2014 in Munster, Germany. (Nigel Treblin/Getty Images)
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) walks with US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Martin Indyk at Ben Gurion International Airport on January 5, 2014 in Tel Aviv. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Islamic fighters from the Al-Nusra Front carry a banner of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque with the Arabic slogan: 'We fight in Syria... and our eyes are on Jerusalem' on July 28, 2014. (RAMI AL-SAYED/AFP/Getty Images)