Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
A passenger is looking at the flight board at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, on April 17, 2024. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Antony Blinken meets with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Turkey on December 12, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Syrians living in Turkey celebrate with opposition flags after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Bashar al-Assad on December 8, 2024, in Istanbul, Turkey. (Burak Kara via Getty Images)
Donald Trump Volodymyr Zelenskyy after their meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace on December 7, 2024, in Paris, France. (Chesnot via Getty Images)
Donald Trump and Narendra Modi embrace while delivering joint statements at the White House on June 26, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson via Getty Images)