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)
The grave of H.E. Kyai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid in Jombang, East Java. The inscription on his tombstone, "Here Rests a Humanist," is written in Indonesian, Arabic, English, and Chinese. (Humanitarian Islam)
Acehnese Muslims are seen attending Eid al-Fitr prayer which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan at the Islamic Center Mosque in Lhokseumawe, on May 13, 2021, Aceh Province, Indonesia. (Photo by Fachrul Reza/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Libyan protesters gather outside the offices of Muslim Brotherhood-backed Party of Justice and Construction, in the Libyan capital Tripoli on July 27, 2013 (MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP via Getty Images)
Nigerian soldiers patrol on October 12, 2019, after gunmen suspected of belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) group raided the village of Tungushe, killing a soldier and three residents. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
December 11, 2019 Nigerian refugee women at the growing Awaridi refugee settlement now home to 9,000 plus mostly northern Nigerians who fled Boko Haram violence over the past few years. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images)
Pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants hold flags and shout slogans during the funeral procession of five men who were killed in clashes with Turkish army in the Syrian province of Idlib. (Marwan Naamani via Getty Images)
Protestors chant as they ride on an army tank transporter in Tahrir Square on January 29, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Iraqi fighters of the Hashed al-Shaabi stand next to a wall bearing the Islamic State group flag as they enter the city of al-Qaim, in Iraq's western Anbar province near the Syrian border (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)