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)
President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
A convoy of Israel Defense Forces soldiers drives along a road near the outskirts of Netivot and near an Artillery position on October 11, 2023, in Netivot, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld via Getty Images)
A veiled Iranian woman holds an effigy of US President Joe Biden while standing in front of a portrait of the former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, General Qasem Soleimani, and an image of al-Aqsa mosque during a rally commemorating the International Quds Day in downtown Tehran on April 29, 2022. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)