Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on May 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
A Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter lands on June 29, 2023, on Mavulis Island, which is the Philippines’ northernmost island and is roughly 88 miles from Taiwan. (Getty Images)
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Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the White House in Washington, DC, on September 20, 2019. (Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images)
View of the logo of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at its office in Tegucigalpa taken on February 6, 2025. (Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images)
United States Army Soldiers use the Versatile Radio Observation and Direction (VROD) and Modular Adaptive Transmit (VMAX) backpack EW systems in Hawaii on November 1, 2023. (Spc. Mariah Aguilar via DVIDS)
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence in northern Israel on September 27, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump arrives to speak to the media on the second day of the 2018 NATO Summit on July 12, 2018, in Brussels, Belgium. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
A tank participates in a live fire exercise of Leopard 1A5 crews in Ukraine on February 5, 2025. (Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Volunteers at the Zanzalima Camp for Internally Displaced People unload 50 kilogram saks of Wheat flour that were a part of an aid delivery from USAID on December 17, 2021, in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. (J. Countess via Getty Images)