An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A protester flashes victory signs as traffic slows during demonstrations in Hamedan, Iran, on January 1, 2026. The demonstrations erupted after shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar shut their businesses to protest the sharp fall of Iran’s currency and worsening economic conditions. (Getty Images)
An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov speaks to media in Moscow, Russia on November 15, 2016. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
An Afghan security personnel keeps watch near the largest US military base in Bagram, 50 km north of Kabul, after an explosion on November 12, 2016. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
Foreign Ministers from China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, Britain, and the US on July 14, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. (Thomas Imo/Photothek via Getty Images)
Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, pray during a Christmas mass in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq on December 24, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, one of the 15 prominent thinkers labeled an "anti-Muslim extremist" by SPLC, attends a book presentation on April 20, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Christian Marquardt/Getty Images)