Soldiers from Afghan Security forces travel on a armed vehicle along a road in Panjshir province of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021. (Photo by Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP Photo)





Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Kandahar province southwest, of Afghanistan, Sunday, August 15, 2021. (Photo by Sidiqullah Khan/AP Photo)





Women with their children try to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 16, 2021. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A member of Taliban stands guard as people walk at the entrance gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A volunteer carries an injured man as other people can be seen waiting at the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at a perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, August 16, 2021. On Monday, the U.S. military and officials focus was on Kabul’s airport, where thousands of Afghans trapped by the sudden Taliban takeover rushed the tarmac and clung to U.S. military planes deployed to fly out staffers of the U.S. Embassy, which shut down Sunday, and others. (Photo by Shekib Rahmani/AP Photo)





A man cries as he watches fellow Afghans get wounded after Taliban fighters use guns fire, whips, sticks and sharp objects to maintain crowd control over thousands of Afghans who continue to wait outside the Kabul Airport for a way out, on airport road in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, August 17, 2021. At least half dozen were wounded, within the hour of violent escalation, including a woman and her child. (Photo by Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Men try to help a wounded woman and her wounded child after Taliban fighters use guns fire, whips, sticks and sharp objects to maintain crowd control over thousands of Afghans who continue to wait outside the Kabul Airport for a way out, on airport road in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, August 17, 2021. (Photo by /Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A boy is processed through an Evacuee Control Checkpoint (ECC) during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan on August 18, 2021. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps/Handout via Reuters)





In this photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, two civilians during processing through an Evacuee Control Checkpoint during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, August 18, 2021. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via AP Photo)





Shiite Muslim men strike themselves with knives attached to chains during a procession to mark Ashoura, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Thursday, August 19, 2020. Ashoura falls on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, when Shiites mourn the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Afghans wave a black, red and green banner in honor of the Afghan flag – a banner that is becoming a symbol of defiance since the Taliban have their own flag, on Afghan Independence Day, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2020. On Thursday, a procession of cars and people near Kabul's airport carried long black, red and green banners in honor of the Afghan flag – a banner that is becoming a symbol of defiance since the militants have their own flag. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, August 19, 2021. The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Afghan traffic policemen clear the road for passing Taliban fighters on patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, August 19, 2021. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Taliban fighters stand guard near a makeshift tent where the Shiite Muslims distribute sherbet to people during the Ashura procession which is held to mark the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, along a road in Kabul on August 19, 2021, amid the Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan. (Photo by Hoshang Hashimi/AFP Photo)





A Taliban fighter clibms up on a vehicle along a makeshift tent where the Shiite Muslims distribute sherbet to people during the Ashura procession which is held to mark the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, along a road in Kabul on August 19, 2021, amid the Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan. (Photo by Hoshang Hashimi/AFP Photo)





Shiite Muslims distribute sherbet during the Ashura procession which is held to mark the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, along a road in Kabul on August 19, 2021, amid the Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan. (Photo by Hoshang Hashimi/AFP Photo)





Afghans pass by the poster of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani who fled the country after Taliban took over, as they celebrate the Independence Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, 19 August 2021. Afghanistan's celebrates the 102nd anniversary of its independence from British rule on 18 August. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





A Taliban fighter walks past a beauty salon with images of women defaced using spray paint in Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on August 18, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)