An Afghan boy rides a bicycle through a dry lake in Kabul, Afghanistan August 16, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





An Afghan shepherd injects his sheep in Kabul, Afghanistan August 16, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





An Afghan police officer keeps watch at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan August 17, 2015. Armed men kidnapped a foreign aid worker, believed to be German, in downtown Kabul on Monday, the latest in a spate of attacks on foreign targets at a time of declining security in the Afghan capital. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)





Laila, 8, works at a brick-making factory outside Kabul, Afghanistan August 20, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Nadia, 11, poses for picture as she works at a brick-making factory outside Kabul, Afghanistan August 20, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Afghan children work at a brick-making factory outside Kabul, Afghanistan August 20, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Afghan men play handball in Kabul, Afghanistan August 24, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Men walk on a wall while others play football during sunset in Kabul, Afghanistan August 24, 2015. (Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters)





A boy plays with a toy airplane on a hilltop Kabul, Afghanistan August 24, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





A villager inspects the site of a gas explosion in Herat province, Afghanistan, August 25, 2015. A series of large explosions at a gas terminal on the edge of the western Afghan city of Herat late on Monday killed 10 children and an adult living in a camp for people displaced by war. (Photo by Mohammad Shoib/Reuters)





An Afghan man works at a dry fruit factory in Jalalabad, Afghanistan August 25, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Parwiz)





An Afghan man sorts dry fruit at a factory in Jalalabad, Afghanistan August 25, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Parwiz)





An Afghan judge hits a woman with a whip in front of a crowd in Ghor province, Afghanistan August 31, 2015. An Afghan man and woman found guilty of adultery received 100 lashes on Monday in front of a crowd who filmed their punishment, TV footage showed. (Photo by Reuters/Pajhwok News Agency)





A boy climbs onto a fence while playing in Kabul, Afghanistan September 3, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Boys play on a hilltop in Kabul, Afghanistan September 3, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





An Afghan refugee girl adjusts her scarf after she arrives at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration centre in Kabul, Afghanistan September 2, 2015. A growing number of Afghan refugees are making the journey back from Pakistan with trepidation, as militant violence intensifies, yet feeling shunned by their adopted country as relations between the neighbours sour. The rate of returnees has more than quadrupled this year, with 137,000 refugees going back to Afghanistan since January. The number could spike further if the countries fail to agree by Dec. 31 to extend identity cards for two years and allow some 1.5 million registered refugees to stay in Pakistan. The chill in relations, amid an offensive by Taliban insurgents which Kabul blames partly on Pakistan, has put the extension in doubt, along with the future of another million unregistered Afghans. (Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters)





An Afghan refugee boy sits on a truck after arriving at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration centre in Kabul, Afghanistan September 2, 2015. (Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters)





Afghan refugee children, returning from Pakistan, watch a short video clip about mines at a mines and explosives awareness program at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration centre in Kabul, Afghanistan September 2, 2015. (Photo by Ahmad Masood/Reuters)





An Afghan girl walks as the sun sets in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 7, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Afghan men sit on a wall as they watch others play football in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





A boy carries on his head a pile of dried shrubs he gathered to use for cooking and heating in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11, 2015. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Afghan street boys play a game of egg fighting, with boiled eggs, in Kabul, Afghanistan Friday, August 14, 2015. The aim of the game is to strike each others eggs, trying to break the shell of your opponents egg without breaking your own. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Afghan security officials inspect the prison after an attack by Taliban militants in Ghazni, Afghanistan, 14 September 2015. At least four police officers were killed when Taliban militants stormed a prison in Ghazni, freeing more than 350 inmates. (Photo by Naweed Haqjoo/EPA)





Afghan boys transport plants with donkeys, in Herat, Afghanistan, 14 September 2015. Afghanistan's economy has improved significantly after suffering from decades of fighting. The economy was boosted by the infusion of international aid and the recovery of the agricultural sector. (Photo by Jalil Rezayee/EPA)





An Afghan girl watches an Afghanistan National Army (ANA) special forces soldier as he patrols in Gozara District of Herat on August 24, 2015. The Taliban are stepping up their summer offensive, launched in late April, amid a bitter leadership dispute following the announcement of the death of longtime leader Mullah Omar. (Photo by Aref Karimi/AFP Photo)





An Afghan man has his photograph taken for facial biometric information as he applies for his passport, August 25, 2015, at the passport office in Kabul. (Photo by Shah Marai/AFP Photo)





A woman clad in a burqa looks at other pieces of Afghanistan's traditional, all-encompassing dress at a store in Mazar-i Sharif, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, September 10, 2015. (Photo by Mustafa Najafizada/AP Photo)