Prior to the 20th anniversary of the catastrophic attacks on September 11, 2001, the U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet announced that a new task force would be launched, including airborne, sailing, and underwater drones (A.P., 2021). In this regard, Navy officials refused to reveal the specifications of systems that would be used in the newly established task force. However, it …

In recent weeks, major legal-political shifts have taken place in Afghanistan’s environment. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has now gone, with its security forces mostly abandoned, and the elected president Ashraf Ghani fled from the country. Now, following the US withdrawal, Taliban fighters dominate most of the country and have declared to restore the so-called “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” which …

The most restrictive and radical abortion legislation seen in half a century in the US came into effect last week (1Sept.) in Texas after the US Supreme Court declined to intervene. The law, introduced as Senate Bill 8 or SB8, prohibits abortions when embryonic cardiac activity is detected which can occur at six weeks, before many know they have become …