Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset as President Donald Trump and Amir Ohana, speaker of the Israeli Knesset, look on, October 13, 2025, in Jerusalem. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan sign a joint declaration at the White House in Washington DC, on August 8, 2025. (Getty Images)
Workers check the operation of carbon fiber production line at Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Co., on October 14, 2025, in Xining, China. (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
People survey the scene following a blast in the Mar Elias Church on June 22, 2025, in Damascus, Syria. A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 20 people and injured 52 others who were attending a service at the church. (Ali Haj Suleiman via Getty Images)