A MIM-104 Patriot Surface-to-Air Missile System fires as part of a bilateral live-fire exercise with military members from the Royal Netherlands Ground-based Air Defense Command at McGregor Range in New Mexico on May 11, 2024. (US Army)
A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Uzushio-class submarine participates in an international fleet review at Sagami Bay on November 6, 2022, off Yokosuka, Japan. (Getty Images)
People ride past large banners of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif displayed along a street ahead of his arrival in Lahore on October 19, 2023. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)
Coalition Forces fire 120mm illumination rounds using an XM905 Advanced Mortar Protection System from a fire base in the al-Shadaddi region in Syria on February 14, 2023. (Nicholas J. De La Pena via DVIDS)
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (R) stands beside his daughter Maryam Nawaz (L) as he waves to his supporters gathered at a park during an event held to welcome him in Lahore on October 21, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
Women activists of Pakistani right wing religious party Jamat-e-Islami shout slogans and hold placards in Karachi on August 31, 2023. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images)
Armed Taliban security personnel near the closed gates of a border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, on September 6, 2023. (Shafiullah Kakar/AFP via Getty Images)
Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra bows to a portrait of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana at Don Mueang International Airport on August 22, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand. (Lauren DeCicca via Getty Images)
Pakistan's soldiers pay tribute to their comrades as they take part in a ceremony to mark the country's Defence Day at Yadgar-e-Shuhada in Lahore on September 6, 2022. (Arif Ali/ via Getty Images)
Supporters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan shout anti-government slogans during a protest outside the press club in Quetta on August 5, 2023. (Banaras Khan/AFP via Getty Images)
A security member stands guard at the site of a suicide attack in Bajaur district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwestern Pakistan, on July 31, 2023. (Xinhua via Getty Images)