Members of Taliban stand in front of the site where the Shahmama Buddha statue once stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, in Bamiyan province on October 2, 2021. (Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP Photo)





Hazara workers prepare to load coal onto a truck near the site where the Salsal Buddha statue once stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, in Bamiyan province on October 3, 2021. (Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP Photo)





People sit on paddle boats for a ride at the Ban e-Amir lake in the Bamyan Province on October 4, 2021. (Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP Photo)





In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, Hazara ethnic children stand in their cave on a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP Photo)





A woman wearing a niqab enters a beauty salon where the ads of women have been defaced by a shopkeeper in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 6, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





An Afghan female journalist attends a Taliban officials news conference where they announced they will start issuing passports to its citizens again following months of delays that hampered attempts by those trying to flee the country after the Taliban seized control, in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 5, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Burqa-clad Afghan women and children, who are among displaced families fleeing the violence in their provinces, stand at a makeshift shelter at Shahr-e Naw park, in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 4, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Afghan men sit behind their currency exchange stalls in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 7, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A girl sits with women wearing burqas outside a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 5, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A girl sits between concrete barriers in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 7, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Young shepherds lead their goats in Arghandab district in the central part of Kandahar Province on October 7, 2021. (Photo by Javed Tanveer/AFP Photo)





Relatives and residents attend a funeral ceremony for victims of a suicide attack at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Saturday, October 9, 2021. The mosque was packed with Shiite Muslim worshippers when an Islamic State suicide bomber attacked during Friday prayers, killing dozens in the latest security challenge to the Taliban as they transition from insurgency to governance. (Photo by Abdullah Sahil/AP Photo)





Taliban fighter, Mostashhed from Wardak province, looks on as he visits Kabul for the first time as hundreds of Taliban fighters take a day off to visit the amusement park at Kabul's Qargha reservoir, at the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan on October 8, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A group of women wearing burqas crosses the street as members of the Taliban drive past in Kabul, Afghanistan October 9, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Relatives and friends stand next to graves of victims of yesterday's suicide bomb attack on worshippers at a Shiite mosque, in which at least 55 people died, at a graveyard in Kunduz on October 9, 2021. (Photo by Hoshang Hashimi/AFP Photo)





Afghan boys play on a water tanker at Nadir Khan hilltop overlooking Kabul on October 10, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Taliban fighters get out of a vehicle as they take a day off to visit the amusement park at Kabul's Qargha reservoir, at the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan on October 8, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





A Taliban fighter rides a horse as he and others take a day off to visit the amusement park at Kabul's Qargha reservoir, at the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan on October 8, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Taliban fighters react as they take a day off to visit the amusement park at Kabul's Qargha reservoir, at the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan on October 8, 2021. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Zahra, 6, and Adina, 5, pose for a photo outside their home at a village in Wardak province, Afghanistan, Monday, October 11, 2021. (Photo by Felipe Dana/AP Photo)