This photograph taken on July 22, 2022 shows women leaving the tomb of King Mirwais Khan in Kandahar city. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A little girl looks out the window of a car in Kabul on july 24, 2022. (Photo by Daniel Leal/AFP Photo)





A health worker gives polio vaccine drops to a child during a three-day door to door vaccination drive in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 25 July 2022. According to UNICEF, repeated immunizations have protected millions of children from polio, allowing almost all countries in the world to become polio-free, aside from the two endemic countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan. (Photo by Stringer/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A child uses a wrench as he scavenges for scrap metal in Kabul on July 26, 2022. (Photo by Daniel Leal/AFP Photo)





Afghan internally displaced refugee women stand in a queue to identify themselves and get cash as they return home to the east, at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) camp in the outskirts of Kabul on July 28, 2022. Hundreds of internally displaced Afghans who had taken refuge in the capital left for their homes in the country's eastern provinces Thursday, almost a year after the war that forced them to flee ended. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





A man stacks flatbread in a bread factory in Kandahar on July 28, 2022. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Displaced Afghan boys play in vans at a cash aid distribution centre for displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 28, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of the Kabul International Cricket Stadium, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of the Kabul International Cricket Stadium, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of the Kabul International Cricket Stadium, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Taliban fighters stand guard at the site of an explosion in front of the Kabul International Cricket Stadium, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, July 29, 2022. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





An Afghan girl jumps off the wall of a small cemetery in Kandahar on July 29, 2022. (Photo by Daniel Leal/AFP Photo)





In this photo taken on July 30, 2022, baker Shapari, 40, poses for a portrait in Kandahar. “During these hard times, it is my job that has made me happy”, Shapari told AFP. “My husband is jobless, and staying at home. I am able to find food for my children”. Since their takeover a year ago, the Taliban have squeezed Afghan women out of public life, imposing suffocating restrictions on where they can work, how they can travel, and what they can wear. There is hardly a woman in the country who has not lost a male relative in successive wars, while many of their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers have also lost their jobs or seen their income shattered as a result of a deepening economic crisis. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Taliban security patrol in the neighborhood where a US drone strike killed the Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 02 August 2022. US President Biden announced on 01 August, that the United States killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Afghanistan on 31 July, in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA. Al-Zawahiri succeeded Osama bin Laden as the leader of al-Qaeda after bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by US special forces under Obama's administration in 2011. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Taliban fighters drive a car on a street following the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a U.S. strike over the weekend, in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 2, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





A traffic police officer stands on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 2, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





Two Afghan children walk under the rain on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 2, 2022. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





Afghan girls read the Quran in the Noor Mosque outside the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, August 3, 2022. Maulvi Bakhtullah, the head of the mosque, said that the number of girls who come to this mosque to learn Quran has multiplied after the closure of public schools. For most teenage girls in Afghanistan, it’s been a year since they set foot in a classroom. With no sign the ruling Taliban will allow them back to school, some girls and parents are trying to find ways to keep education from stalling for a generation of young women. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Women carrying weeds on their heads in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 4, 2022. (Photo by Daniel Leal/AFP Photo)





Shiite Muslim men beat themselves with knives attached to chains during a procession to mark Ashoura, three days ahead of Ashoura, in a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, August 5, 2022. Ashoura falls on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, when Shiites mark 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 Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)