Afghans watch a rooster fight in Herat, Afghanistan, 30 December 2016. Gamblers sometimes bet up to 500 Euros per fight. A system similar to boxing is used with marks and rounds. The owners decide when to stop the match and which bird is the winner. During the Taliban regime gambling and gaming was forbidden. (Photo by Jalil Rezayee/EPA)





An Afghan boy rides on a horse in a snow covered neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, 15 January 2017. Afghanistan is experiencing harsh winters with temperatures falling well below freezing in many parts of the country. (Photo by Jawad Jalali/EPA)





In this photograph taken on December 27, 2016, an Afghan man performs ablution before prayers in a river on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (Photo by Noorullah Shirzada/AFP Photo)





An Afghan vendor waits for customers to buy bread, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, January 4, 2017. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





An Afghan family leaves the site of an attack where the house of an Afghan member of parliament was attacked by Taliban last night in Kabul, Afghanistan December 22, 2016. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)





Birds fly over as the sun sets in Kabul, Afghanistan December 30, 2009. (Photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters)





An Afghan man works at his firewood stall in Kabul, Afghanistan January 5, 2017. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Afghan girl athletes perform Wushu on the top of a hill in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, January 18, 2017. In the conservative Afghan society where people especially in the countryside deeply believe in the old traditions and don't allow their girls and female members of the family to go out of home, exercising sport in open is extremely risky, but a group of girls are broken the taboo and exercising Wushu on a hilltop where the temperature is minus 2 Celsius degrees. (Photo by Rahmat Alizadah/Xinhua/Barcroft Images)





Afghan men work in a small sweets factory in Kabul, Afghanistan January 5, 2017. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Boys play football on a field covered in snow on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan January 6, 2017. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)





Men drink tea at a roadside tea shop on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan January 6, 2017. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)





A young man prepares tea for customers at a roadside tea shop on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan January 6, 2017. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)





An Afghan man holds balloons for sale in Kabul, Afghanistan January 8, 2017. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Afghan men sit in the sun during winter on a cold day in Kabul, Afghanistan January 8, 2017. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





A man selling construction wood waits for customers in Kabul, Afghanistan January 8, 2017. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)





Afghan men build a house on a hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan January 1, 2017. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





Afghan men warm themselves by a fire on a snowy day in Kabul, Afghanistan January 14, 2017. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





A girl carries a water container on her head in Kabul, Afghanistan January 16, 2017. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)





Women walk along a street in Kabul, Afghanistan January 16, 2017. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)





Labourers working at a coal dump site warm themselves by a fire during a cold day on outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan January 17, 2017. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)





An Afghan boy pushes a popcorn machine as he looks for customers, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan January 17, 2017. (Photo by Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)