Vice President JD Vance speaking with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the US embassy in Paris on February 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with NATO secretary general Mark Rutte at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye, on April 22, 2026. (Getty Images)
Smoke rises after coup supporters set fire to the headquarters of President Mohamed Bazoum's party, the Party for Democracy and Socialism in Niger in Niamey, Niger, on July 27, 2023. (Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' movie poster is seen in Cinema City multiplex cinema in Bonarka shopping center in Krakow, Poland, on July 25, 2023. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the Ohio-class fleet ballistic-missile submarine USS Maryland (SSBN 738) off the coast of Florida on August 31, 2016. (US Navy Photo John Kowalski/Released)
US Air Force Airmen assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing recover a B-2 Spirit before a hot-pit refueling at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on July 19, 2023. (Sheila DeVera via DVIDS)
A North Korean guard post is seen from South Korea near the demilitarized zone on July 19, 2023, in Paju, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh fires a standard missile during a live-fire exercise in the Philippine Sea on January 23, 2023. (Santiago Navarro via DVIDS)
Amid intensifying threats military from China, Taiwanese soldiers carrying artillery to tanks during the two-day live-fire drill in Pingtung, Taiwan, on September 7, 2022. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)