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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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Clashes erupt between Georgian police and protesters on the second day of protest against "foreign agents" bill, in Tblisi, Geogia on March 08, 2023 (David Mdzinarishvili via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump joins hands with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during a signing ceremony in the White House on August 8, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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Construction of roads and railways that will pass through the Zangezur Corridor continues in Zangilan, Azerbaijan, on October 9, 2023. (Resul Rehimov via Getty Images)
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Demonstrators protest against a controversial bill limiting so-called foreign influence in Tbilisi, Georgia, on April 28, 2024. (Photo by Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Getty Images)
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev receives Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Baku, Azerbaijan, on March 17, 2024. (Azerbaijani Presidency via Getty Images)
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Weapons, vehicles, and other military equipment captured by the Azerbaijani army in Signag, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images)
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Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh are evacuated on September 26, 2023, in Kornidzor, Armenia. (Astrig Agopian via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev, and Nikol Pashinyan attend a tripartite meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace on May 25, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Contributor via Getty Images)
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An Azerbaijani checkpoint at the entry of the Lachin corridor on May 2, 2023. (Tofik Babayev/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi hold a meeting in Tehran on July 19, 2022. (Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Uzbek Acting Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on March 1, 2023. (State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)
