Afghan internally-displaced children warm-up around a fire outside their temporary mud house on the outskirts of Herat province on December 6, 2022. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)





Afghan high schoolgirls return from school after taking part in their high school graduation exam in Kabul on December 7, 2022. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Smoke billows from a guest house after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, 12 December 2022. The Afghan capital was rocked by a loud blast and gunfire on 12 December, near one of the guest houses popular with Chinese business visitors. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





A local goverment official burns expired food items removed from shops on the outskirts of Kandahar on December 14, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





An Afghan boy holds balloons as he walks downhill along a path in Barmal district of Paktika province on December 15, 2022. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan tailor sews burqa which is (a one-piece overgarment that covers the entire head and body, with a mesh panel to see through) at his shop in Jalalabad on December 19, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Taliban security personnel stand guard along a road in Kabul on December 21, 2022. Hundreds of young women were stopped by armed guards on December 21, from entering Afghan university campuses, a day after the nation's Taliban rulers banned them from higher education in another assault on human rights. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





A female university Student walks in front of a university in Kandahar Province on December 21, 2022. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have banned university education for women nationwide, provoking condemnation from the United States and the United Nations over another assault on human rights. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





An Afghan student walks in front of the Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan on December 21, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





Afghan women students stand outside the Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 21, 2022. The United Nations' human rights chief on Tuesday Dec. 27, 2022 decried increasing restrictions on women's rights in Afghanistan, urging the country's Taliban rulers to reverse them immediately. He pointed to “terrible consequences” of a decision to bar women from working for non-governmental organizations. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Afghan female student stands in front of the entrance gate of Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan on December 21, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





Afghan women chant slogans to protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul on December 22, 2022. A small group of Afghan women staged a defiant protest in Kabul on December 22 against a Taliban order banning them from universities, an activist said, adding that some were arrested. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A Taliban fighter stands guard as a woman walks past in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, December 26, 2022. Recent Taliban rulings on Afghan women include bans on university education and working for NGOs, sparking protests in major cities. Security in the capital Kabul has intensified in recent days, with more checkpoints, armed vehicles, and Taliban special forces on the streets. Authorities have not given a reason for the tougher security. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Afghan man carries turkey along a street in Kabul on December 27, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A Taliban fighter stands guard along a street in Kabul on December 27, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Boys play in a park during snowfall in Kabul on December 29, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Commuters make their way along a street during snowfall in Kabul on December 29, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A boy pushes his bicycle along a street during snowfall in Kabul on December 29, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





An old Afghan man holds a snowball during snowfall, on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, December 29, 2022. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Afghan bird seller sells a vulture at a bird market during snowfall in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, December 29, 2022. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)