Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sits beside Iranian officials and other leaders during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on July 30, 2024. On the first row, second to the left, is Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Exxon Mobil Corporation CEO Rex Tillerson and Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L-R front) during a meeting at Novo-Ogaryovo residence, April 16, 2012. (Alexei Nikolsky\TASS via Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) looks on as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a meeting at the Plaza Hotel on September 19, 2016 in New York. (DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images)
Flowers are placed in front of a portrait of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on December 20, 2016, a day after his assassination in the Turkish capital. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
Atef's grandchildren present on their right wrist the tattoo of a blue cross, a sign of their belonging to the Copts of Egypt, Cairo, November 9, 2010. (Alvaro Canovas/Paris Match via Getty Images)