Afghan women work at a carpet loom at a home in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 14 February 2024. Zainab, a resident of Kandahar city, has established a carpet weaving center in her small rural house to support her family's economic needs. Over the past 20 years, she has trained several other impoverished women and provided them with employment opportunities. However, due to limited resources and a lack of sufficient opportunities in the industry, Zainab and the women working in the center are facing severe challenges. They are struggling with poverty, low wages, and a decline in the market for carpets. They call for support from the government and institutions to help overcome these difficulties and revive the industry. (Photo by Qudratullah Rizwan/EPA)





An Afghan burqa-clad woman carries a child as she walks along a street in Argo district of Badakhshan province on February 25, 2024. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghans carry winter kits from UNICEF at Fayzabad in Badakhshan province on February 25, 2024. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan Shi'ite Muslims visit Sakhi Shah-e Mardan Shrine as they mark the birth of Imam Mahdi during the Kart-e-Sakhi pilgrimage in Kabul, Afghanistan, 26 February 2024. Afghan Shiites in Kabul and across the country celebrated the birth of Imam Mahdi (A.S.) during the Karte Sakhi pilgrimage, marking the 15th of Sha'ban with special programs and ceremonies. The event, held in mosques and takayas, featured chanting, hymns, receptions, and discussions on Mahdism. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA/EFE)





Taliban security stand guard in the Afghan capital Kabul, on the fourth anniversary of the agreement between the United States and the Taliban, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 26 February 2024. Afghanistan marks the first anniversary of the agreement between the United States and the Taliban that was signed in Doha on 29 February 2020 for bringing Peace to Afghanistan, commonly known as the United States–Taliban deal or the Doha Accord, the withdrawal of US troops and launching intra-Afghan negotiations. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA/EFE)





An Afghan man feeds his pigeons on the outskirts of Kandahar on March 4, 2024. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam/AFP Photo)





Afghan burqa-clad women walk down a hill road in Fayzabad on March 4, 2024. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan horseman rides a horse in the snow in Kabul, Afghanistan, 05 March 2024. At least 20 people have died and another 14 were injured due to sudden floods and heavy snowfall in Afghanistan in the last week, the Disaster Management Ministry of the Taliban government said on 02 March. Natural disasters are increasing in intensity and severity, making Afghanistan the fourth country with the highest risk and the eighth most vulnerable and least prepared to adapt to the climate crisis, according to a recent report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA Photo)





Afghan skiers walk uphill to compete in a ski race on the outskirts of Bamiyan province on March 8, 2024. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





This photograph taken on March 8, 2024 shows Afghan riders of the Yama Petroleum (orange) and Baghlan teams competing at the Buzkashi league tournament final in Mazar-i- Sharif. Played for centuries in Afghanistan's northern steppes, the national sport at the heart of Afghan identity has evolved from a rough, rural pastime to a professionalised phenomenon flush with cash. Traditionally, buzkashi is played with the headless body of a goat. More often a 30-kilogramme (66-pound) leather sack stands in for the carcass that riders try to pull from a fray of horses and drop in a “circle of justice” traced on the ground. (Photo by Atif Aryan/AFP Photo)





Afghan traditional wrestlers compete at a field in Fayzabad on March 10, 2024. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Afghan man and burqa-clad women ride a three-wheeler vehicle in Arghandab district of Kandahar province on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Sanaullah Seiam/AFP Photo)





Afghan workers cover themselves with the plastic sheets during the rainfall as they sit on their hand carts along a road in Herat on March 12, 2024. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)





An Afghan elderly man walks through a flooded street following the flash floods after heavy rainfall in Guzara district of Herat province on March 13, 2024. At least 60 people have been killed by heavy rain and snow in Afghanistan over the past three weeks, the government's disaster ministry said on March 13. About 1,645 houses have been totally or partially ruined and nearly 178,000 livestock killed, ministry spokesman Janan Sayeq added. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)





Afghan residents walk through a flooded street following the flash floods after heavy rainfall in Guzara district of Herat province on March 13, 2024. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)





An Afghan man cleans the his courtyard partially submerged in flood water following the flash floods after heavy rainfall in Guzara district of Herat province on March 13, 2024. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)





Afghan boys fly kites on a hilltop in Badakhshan on March 14, 2024. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





Afghan women receive food from a local charity during the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan on March 18, 2024. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP Photo)





Afghan men sit by the Kokcha river in Fayzabad on March 18, 2024. (Photo by Omer Abrar/AFP Photo)





An Afghan woman visits the Shrine of Saint Sakhi Saib to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 20 March 2024. Nowruz, which this year falls on 20 March has been celebrated for at least three thousand years, is the most revered celebration in the greater Persian world, which includes the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and portions of western China and northern Iraq. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA)