Drug addicts sit inside a drug rehabilitation and treatment centre in Takhta Pul district of Kandahar province on July 30, 2023. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam/AFP Photo)





An Afghan man sells sweets on a roadside in Kabul, Afghanistan, 30 July 2023. A high-level Taliban government delegation will meet with representatives of the United States this week in Doha to hold talks on issues of mutual interest, foreign ministry spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi said in a statement. The US state department on 26 July said that Washington's special representative for Afghanistan, Thomas West, and special envoy for Afghan women, girls, and human rights – Rina Amiri – would meet with Taliban representatives in Qatar to discuss critical interests in Afghanistan. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA/EFE)





An Afghan man walks in his drought-hit wheat field in Nahr-e-Shahi district in Balkh province, Afghanistan on August 4, 2023. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





An Afghan man removes sand from a road in Balkh province, Afghanistan, August 4, 2023. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





Afghan women clean wool with sticks at a traditional factory in the Herat province of Jibrail district on August 7, 2023. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)





In this photograph taken on August 9, 2023, an Afghan burqa-clad woman rides a donkey along with children on a street in Tagab district of Badakhshan province. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Afghan girls look at Taliban supporters on the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street near the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 15, 2023. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





Children hold Taliban flags during a celebration marking the second anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, August 15, 2023. (Photo by Abdul Khaliq/AP Photo)





Taliban mark the second anniversary of their takeover of the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, August 15, 2023. (Photo by Siddiqullah Alizai/AP Photo)





Taliban members rejoice on the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street near the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 15, 2023. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





Afghan men ferry a motorcycle on a boat across the Kokcha river on the outskirts of Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province on August 20, 2023. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Afghan burqa-clad women health workers administer polio vaccine drops to a child during a campaign in Jalalabad on August 21, 2023. (Photo by Shafiullah Kakar/AFP Photo)





Shakar Rustami (L) and Zulaikha Amini, organizers of the“'Smart Way” book and painting exhibition stand in front of painting in Kabul, Afghanistan, 21 August 2023. Young female artists in Kabul held a painting exhibition to express the restrictions imposed by the Taliban on women and girls. The exhibition also featured books displayed by students to promote reading culture. Some of the girls called for the Taliban to lift the restrictions against women and girls. Many female students turned to painting and drawing after schools and universities closed. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA/EFE)





An Afghan boy helps a potter to sort clay piggy banks inside a kiln in Jalalabad on August 27, 2023. (Photo by Shafiullah Kakar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan farmer drys figs at a house in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar Province on August 28, 2023. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam/AFP Photo)





Afghan children read from the holy Quran at a madrassa or an Islamic school in Behsud district of Nangarhar Province on August 28, 2023. (Photo by Shafiullah Kakar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan balloon vendor stands aside his bicycle as he awaits customers at a street in Kabul on August 31, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan balloon vendor rides a bicycle along a street in Kabul on August 31, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan women and children are pictured on a military vehicle after being detained by the Taliban security personnel on charges of begging for alms, in Kabul on September 3, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan youth play cricket in a field in Kabul on September 3, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)