European Union flags outside the European Central Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, on December 12, 2024. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)
US Air Force Airman 1st Class Austin House, 388th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, marshals an F-35A Lightning II from underneath a hardened facility on January 24, 2018, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. (US Air Force)
The flag of Somaliland is seen during a campaign rally of the main opposition party in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on November 8, 2024, ahead of the 2024 Somaliland presidential election. (Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images)
The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Louisiana transits Puget Sound on February 9, 2023. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian G. Reynolds)
A member of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service raises the victory gesture as others hold upside-down the black flag of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, on June 30, 2017. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)
Afghan security forces patrol during ongoing clashes between security forces and Islamic State militants in eastern Nangarhar province on July 26, 2016. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images)
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, on October 4, 2024. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
FARDC (Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo) soldiers escort civilian vehicles transporting goods from Beni toward Komanda on March 19, 2022. (Photo by Sebastien Kitsa Musayi/AFP via Getty Images)
Seven sympathizers of the Daesh terror organization undergo trial in the District Court of West Jakarta, January 21, 2016. (Azqa Harun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)