F-16 Fighting Falcon aircrafts are prepared for a mission during Operation Noble Defender at Pittufik Space Base in Greenland on January 30, 2025. (US Air Force)
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)
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs Priti Patel MP listens during a press conference on May 19, 2025, in London, England. (Getty Images)
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar meets with Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on January 6, 2026. (Getty Images)
A U.S. soldier on a Stryker takes part in a joint Romanian-U.S. military drill, in a military base, on March 10, 2022, in Smardan, Romania. (Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on December 15, 2021. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
Then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on August 28, 2020. (Photo by STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images)
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about trade with Russia, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2022. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
The leaders of the Big Three meeting at Potsdam, (from left) British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), American President Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972) and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953), Germany, 2nd August 1945. (Photo by Imagno/
Refugees fleeing Ukraine arrive at the border train station of Zahony on March 10, 2022 in Zahony, Hungary. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videolink in Moscow on March 11, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)