Residents and civil society activists hold lamps as they stand near the site where the Salsal Buddha statue once stood during a 20th anniversary commemoration ceremony since the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues by the Taliban in March 2001, in Bamiyan province on March 9, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





A Hazara man rides a donkey along a path near the site of the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues, which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, in Bamiyan province on March 5, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





A military helicopter flies over people during the Afghan Security Forces Exhibition, at the Darul Aman Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. The three-day military exhibition in Kabul allowed civilians to have a first hand view and take pictures of weaponry used by Afghan Security forces. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





An Afghan security official looks for mines or improvised explosive device with metal detector on a roadside during a trip organized by the police for The Associated Press, in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 17, 2021. Sticky bombs slapped onto cars trapped in Kabul’s chaotic traffic are the newest weapons terrorizing Afghans in the increasingly lawless nation. The surge of bombings comes as Washington searches for a responsible exit from decades of war. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Athletes train in Muay Thai form of martial arts atop the hills of Salsal Buddha, the site of the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues, which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, in Bamiyan province on March 14, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan men transport the body of one of three female media workers who were shot and killed by unknown gunmen, at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on March 2, 2021. Three female media workers were shot dead amid a wave of killings that is spreading fear among professional workers in urban centers. Zalmai Latifi, head of local broadcaster Enikas TV, said the three women were recent high school graduates aged between 18 and 20 who worked in the station's dubbing department. A wave of shootings and small bombs attached to vehicles in have targeted journalists, civil society workers and mid-level government employees in recent months. (Photo by Parwiz via Reuters)





Afghan police officers inspect the site after a car bomb blast in Herat province, Afghanistan on March 13, 2021. (Photo by Jalil Ahmad/Reuters)





An injured girl is treated at a hospital after a car bomb attack in Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 13, 2021. A powerful car bomb killed at least eight people and injured 47 in Afghanistan's western Herat province, officials said Saturday. (Photo by Hamed Sarfarazi/AP Photo)





An Afghan security force escorts a Taliban militant, who was arrested by them, during a presentation to the media in Jalalabad, Afghanistan March 14, 2021. (Photo by Parwiz via Reuters)





A Hazara farmer ploughs a field with oxen near the ruins of the historic city of Shahr-e Zuhak or Zuhak City, on the outskirts of Bamiyan on March 15, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghan children play on a swing on the first day of Persian new year “Nowruz” in Kabul, Afghanistan, 21 March 2021. The New Persian Year, which has been celebrated for at least 3,000 years, is one of the most important celebrations in the greater Persian world, which includes the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and portions of western China and northern Iraq, and is traditionally celebrated on the Spring equinox, the day when the duration of night and day are roughly equivalent, usually falling on the 20 or 21 March. (Photo by Hedayatullah Amid/AFP Photo)





A boy looks out of a shattered window in the aftermath of a bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, 18 March 2021. At least four people were killed and eleven others injured after a magnetic improvised explosive device (IED), targeting a minibus carrying employees of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, went off in Kabul. (Photo by Hedayatullah Amid/EPA/EFE)





Afghan school girls attend the first day of the academic year at their school after the educational institutes opened in Herat, Afghanistan, 23 March 2021. The new school year in Afghanistan began on 23 March as President Ashraf Ghani saying at least one million more students will attend classes on the new year. According to UNICEF, an estimated 3.7 million children are out-of-school in Afghanistan, 60 percent of them being girls. (Photo by Jalil Rezayee/EPA/EFE)





People watch a three-dimensional projection of the 56 metres-high Salsal Buddha at the site where the Buddhas of Bamiyan statues stood before being destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, in Bamiyan province on March 9, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Female police officers attend an event ahead of International Women's Day, in Kabul, Afghanistan, 07 March 2021. International Women's Day is marked around the world on 08 March. (Photo by Hedayatullah Amid/EPA/EFE)





Afghans receive administrative aid packages donated by the Italian soldiers of Nato's Resolute Support Mission to the Department of Women's Affairs, in Herat, Afghanistan, 16 March 2021. The donations included furniture, chairs, carpets, air conditioners, televisions, etc. (Photo by Jalil Rezayee/EPA/EFE)





Afghan security forces personnel demonstrate their skills as they celebrate National security forces day in Jalalabad on February 27, 2021. (Photo by Noorullah Shirzada/AFP Photo/Profimedia)





Disabled Afghan men take part in the final match of the national mens wheelchair basketball championship between Kabul and Maymana provinces, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. The tournament is organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross. (Photo by Mariam Zuhaib/AP Photo)





A homeless person covers herself with a plastic sheet in the rain on a sidewalk, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 22, 2021. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





A Hazara boy flies a kite near the site of the giant Buddha statues, which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, in Bamiyan province on March 3, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)