The Taliban leader says there is no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws ...

John Lithgow as Dave Crealy, Geoffrey Rush as Stefan Mortensen, and Jenny Pen in James Ashcroft’s "The Rule of Jenny Pen." Credit: Courtesy of Matt Henley. An IFC Films and Shudder Release.

Despite the Russian leader's 2022 declaration, Moscow does not fully control these Ukrainian regions but hopes that the U.S.