This picture taken on August 14, 2021 shows an Ariana Afghan Airlines aircraft taking-off from the airport in Kabul. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan security personnel gestures as he stands guard at the site a day after a car bomb explosion in Kabul on August 4, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan security personnel stands guard near the wreckage of a vehicle at the site a day after a car bomb explosion in Kabul on August 4, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan policemen stand guard at a checkpoint along the road in Kabul on August 14, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Private militia loyal to Ismail Khan, the former Mujahideen commander, patrols after security forces took back control of parts of Herat city following fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces in Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, August 6, 2021. (Photo by Hamed Sarfaraz/AP Photoi)





Afghan Special forces patrol a deserted street during fighting with Taliban fighters, in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday, August 3, 2021. The Taliban pressed ahead with their advances in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, capturing nine out of 10 districts of the Helmand provincial capital, residents and officials said. The fall of Lashkar Gah would be a major turning point in the offensive the Taliban have waged over the past months as U.S. and NATO forces complete their pullout from the war-torn country. (Photo by Abdul Khaliq/AP Photo)





Passengers walk out from the domestic terminal at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, August 14, 2021. As a Taliban offensive encircles the Afghan capital, there's increasingly only one way out for those fleeing the war, and only one way in for U.S. troops sent to protect American diplomats still on the ground: the airport. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Taliban flags fly at a square in the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, August 14, 2021. (Photo by Gulabuddin Amiri/AP Photo)





Smoke rises after fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, in Kandahar, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, August 12, 2021. (Photo by Sidiqullah Khan/AP Photo)





Locals carry the body of a child killed in a mudslide following heavy flooding in Nuristan province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 31, 2021. Flash flooding killed over a hundred people in a remote area in Afghanistan's mountainous northeastern Nuristan province controlled by the Taliban, a spokesman for the insurgents said Thursday. The provincial government appealed to the Taliban to allow rescue teams into the area to help. (Photo by Ubidullah Abid/AP Photo)





Locals search for victims of a mudslide following heavy flooding in Nuristan province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 31, 2021. (Photo by Ubidullah Abid/AP Photo)





Afghan military and officials leave Kandahar city during fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, in Kandahar, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, August 12, 2021. (Photo by Sidiqullah Khan/AP Photo)





Internally displaced Afghans from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, take refuge in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, August 9, 2021. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





A man sells mobile recharge cards, one of the few vendors venturing out due to fighting nearby between the Taliban and Afghan security forces, in the city of Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday, August 3, 2021. The Taliban pressed on with their advances in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Tuesday as Afghan forces launched airstrikes to defend the provincial capital. (Photo by Abdul Khaliq/AP Photo)





An Afghan army soldier stands guard on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Tuesday, August 10, 2021. (Photo by Mirwais Bezhan/AP Photo)





A woman asks for donations from drivers on a street on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 31, 2021. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





An internally displaced boy from northern provinces, who fled from his home due the fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces, is comforted by his sister in a public park that they use as shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 10, 2021. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A Taliban fighter looks on as he stands at the city of Ghazni, Afghanistan August 14, 2021. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A Taliban fighter stands guard on a street in Herat on August 14, 2021. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer Network)





A member of Afghan security force sits along the roadside in Panjshir province on August 14, 2021. (Photo by Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP Photo)