In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
A Pakistani man walks past closed offices of the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation -- an organisation believed by the UN to be a front for the banned Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba -- in Islamabad on March 6, 2019. (AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian soldiers and Kashmiri onlookers stand near the remains of an Indian Air Force helicopter after it crashed in Budgam district, outside Srinagar on February 27, 2019. (AUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan security forces and investigators gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack outside a British security firm's compound in Kabul on November 30, 2018. At least 10 people were killed. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan attends talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People on November 2, 2018 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images)
Pakistani supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious political party, chant slogans and gestures following the Supreme Court decision to acquit Christian woman Asia Bibi of blasphemy, in Karachi on November 4, 2018 (RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)