A general view shows the cityscape through a wall fence at the Wazir Akbar Khan hilltop in Kabul on November 25, 2024. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan street photographer (R) takes photographs of Taliban security personnel at the Wazir Akbar Khan hilltop in Kabul on November 25, 2024. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan boy walks across a footbridge during the first snowfall in the Dara district of Afghanistan's Panjshir province on December 2, 2024. (Photo by Shah Poor Afzally/AFP Photo)





Afghan men sit around fire at a market, on a cold winter day in Herat on December 9, 2024. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)





A view of the skyline in Kabul, Afghanistan, 09 December 2024. With a lack of adequate heating systems, people in the city resort to burning plastic, car tyres and raw coal in their stoves to combat the winter cold. This practice significantly worsens air quality, posing a serious threat to public health and the environment. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA/EFE)





An Afghan burqa-clad woman sits next to food aid distributed by a local charity foundation in Mazar-i-Sharif on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Atif Aryan/AFP Photo)





Horsemen from Sar-e-Pol (blue) and Badakshan (Red) provincial teams play Buzkashi at the opening of the sixth season of the Afghan Buzkashi Premier League in Kabul, Afghanistan, 11 December 2024. The sixth season of the Afghan Buzkashi Premier League has officially commenced in Kabul, featuring 11 competing teams over a ten-day period at the Buzkashi Field in the Yeketoot area. This year's tournament includes players from Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, with each team permitted to field two foreign players. Participating teams hail from various provinces, including Sar-e-Pul, Takhar, Herat, and others.Buzkashi is a traditional sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat or calf carcass in a goal. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA/EFE)





Afghan horsemen from the Badakhshan and Faryab teams compete during the sixth annual Buzkashi League of Afghanistan in Kabul on December 16, 2024. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





A vendor sells second-hand shoes at a roadside market in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 19 December 2024. Vendors selling second-hand clothes through auctions report a seasonal boost in sales due to the demand for affordable, high-quality winter wear amid economic struggles. (Photo by Qudratullah Razwan/EPA/EFE)





An Afghan burqa-clad woman holds a child as she asks for alms in front of the Great Mosque of Heart, in Herat on December 22, 2024. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan workers take a break in front of a shop in the Herat citadel, also known the citadel of Alexander and locally known as Qala Iktyaruddin, in Herat on December 23, 2024. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Taliban security personnel inspect a damaged car two days after air strikes by Pakistan in the Barmal district of eastern Paktika province on December 26, 2024. Pakistan air strikes in an eastern border region of Afghanistan killed 46 civilians, the Taliban government said on December 25, whilst a Pakistan security official said the bombardment had targeted “terrorist hideouts”. (Photo by Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP Photo)





Afghan burqa-clad women ride on the back of a vehicle, in Kandahar on December 29, 2024. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam/AFP Photo)





Afghan burqa-clad women sit outside a mosque in Kandahar on December 29, 2024. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam/AFP Photo)





An Afghan burqa-clad woman looks for alms along a street, during the first heavy snowfall this winter in Kabul on January 2, 2025. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan labourers shovel coal onto a truck bound for Pakistan, at a coal yard on the outskirts of Kabul on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





A boy walks near snow-covered trees in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, January 6, 2020. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Afghan balloon vendors walk with their bicycles to look for customers, near a market in Kabul on January 8, 2025. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghans ride a zipline to cross the Kokcha river at Yaftal Sufla district in Badakhshan province on January 16, 2025. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Afghan men show their skills as they ride motorcycles along a hillside on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif on January 24, 2025. (Photo by Atif Aryan/AFP Photo)