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)
A damaged painting of Jesus Christ on the ground of Syriac Orthodox Um al-Zinar church in Homs, central Syria, May 12, 2014. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani media personnel and local residents gather outside the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iran, addresses the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons April 27, 2015 at the UN, New York. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
(L-R): Jeremy Spiegelman, Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gerard Biard, New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff and Charlie Hebdo film critic Jean-Baptiste Thoret, PEN American Center Literary Gala, May 5, 2015, New York City. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)