An Afghan man rides a horse as the sun sets in Dawlatabad district of Balkh province on October 10, 2023. (Photo by Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP Photo)





Afghan volunteers clean up rubble after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, October 11, 2023. Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Afghan boy eats in front of his house that was destroyed by the earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Wednesday, October 11, 2023. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Afghan girl carries a child amid destruction after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Octoner 11, 2023. Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Afghan burqa-clad woman with children ride a donkey in Kishim district of Badakhshan province on October 12, 2023. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





In this handout photo released by MSF Afghanistan, injured people received treatment after a powerful earthquake in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Sunday, October 15, 2023. (Photo by MSF Afghanistan via AP Photo)





In this handout photo released by MSF Afghanistan, injured people received treatment after a powerful earthquake in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Sunday, October 15, 2023. (Photo by MSF Afghanistan via AP Photo)





An Afghan man uses a computer at a market in Mazar-i-Sharif on October 17, 2023. (Photo by Atif Aryan/AFP Photo)





An Afghan youth jumps on a trampoline at the Kart-e-Sakhi cemetery in Kabul on October 17, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan orphan boys attend classes at Sheikh Zahid Orphanage School in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 18 October 2023. Sheikh Zahid Orphanage School provides education and care for 1,100 orphans, funded by a charitable foundation from the United Arab Emirates. The school has been operating for 20 years, exclusively serving orphaned students, some of whom have no guardians. The institution spends 700,000 USD annually on their education and well-being. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





An Afghan farmer harvests corn at a field in Dand district of Kandahar province on October 18, 2023. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam/AFP Photo)





Afghan children study the Quran at an open air madrassa or an Islamic school on the outskirts of Kandahar province on October 19, 2023. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam/AFP Photo)





An Afghan man rakes salt at an alkali flat in the Kalafgan district of Takhar province on October 22, 2023. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Afghan men play cricket at a field in the Chaman-e-Huzuri area of downtown Kabul on October 24, 2023. Fireworks and celebratory gunfire raked Kabul's skies as Afghans celebrated their stunning eight-wicket cricket World Cup defeat of Pakistan, a rare burst of public jubilation since the Taliban takeover. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan workers sort pine nut seeds after harvesting at a field in the Bihsud district of Nangarhar province on October 25, 2023. (Photo by Shafiullah Kakar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan man carries plastic cans as he looks for customers along a road in Kabul on October 26, 2023. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan refugees arrive in trucks from Pakistan at the Afghanistan-Pakistan Torkham border in Nangarhar province on October 30, 2023. Islamabad has issued an order to 1.7 million Afghans it says are living in the country illegally to leave by November 1, or be deported. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan refugees arrive in trucks from Pakistan at the Afghanistan-Pakistan Torkham border in Nangarhar province on October 30, 2023. Islamabad has issued an order to 1.7 million Afghans it says are living in the country illegally to leave by November 1, or be deported. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan refugees arrive with their belongings on trucks from Pakistan at the Afghanistan-Pakistan Torkham border in Nangarhar province on November 1, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan faced the threat of detention and deportation on November 1, as a government deadline for them to leave sparked a mass exodus. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Zarbineh Khaterzai, a 27-year-old former engineering student at Kabul University who now runs a painter's guild named Honar Sera Gallery, teaches Afghan girls painting skills in Kabul, Afghanistan on November 1, 2023. Kabul girls deprived of education due to school and university closures find solace and hope in an art class. Over 30 students regularly attend the class, using painting as a means of coping and personal growth. The class is organised by Honar Sera Gallery, a painter's guild headed by 27-year-old engineering student Zarbineh Khaterzai. Khaterzai, who is optimistic about the increasing number of students, believes that these talented girls have a promising future in art. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA)