Ceremonial soldiers parade during the 79th anniversary of the Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2024. (Sefa Karacan via Getty Images)
An F/A-18F Super Hornet launches off the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in the South China Sea on June 10, 2024. (US Navy photo)
Iranian workers walk past a destroyed residential building due to Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl via Getty Images)
Minister of Defense of Japan Gen Nakatani and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth review an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Ministry of Defense on March 30, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Kiyoshi Ota Getty Images)
German designated chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats, Friedrich Merz, speaks to the media the day after the Hamburg city-state election on March 3, 2025, in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
A Taliban security personnel stands guard outside the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque during Eid al-Fitr prayers in Kabul on March 30, 2025. (Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP via Getty Images)
Masked Palestinian youths dressed as suicide bombers carry Hamas flags and a makeshift Qassam rocket during a rally organized by Hamas, in the West Bank City of Ramallah, on September 22, 2005 (Jamal Aruri/AFP via Getty Images)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greets Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Christopher Cavoli before the North Atlantic Council meeting of defense ministers on February 13, 2025, in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana via Getty Images)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a joint press conference at the Vahdettin Mansion on July 8, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. (Ozan Guzelce via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump shakes hands with US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff on February 11, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Al Drago via Getty Images)