and extraordinary professor, Department of Constitutional Law and Department of the Philosophy of Law, Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. He has been retained by the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops in their role as an intervener in the Christian Horizons case.

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The US carried out two airstrikes in Sangin district in Afghanistan's Helmand province, a region that has been overrun by Taliban fighters. The bombing was meant to bolster embattled government forces who may be on the verge of losing control over the country's largest province.

For weeks, the Taliban has been moving freely over large swaths of Helmand — a strategically important region known for its opium production. Last weekend, the deputy governor of the province pleaded publicly with President Ashraf Ghani for military aid, writing in a Facebook post that his province was "standing on the brink."

On Wednesday, a Taliban spokesperson said