In this picture taken on June 17, 2021, a man holds a teddy bear as people look for useable items at a junkyard near the Bagram Air Base in Bagram. The Pentagon is evacuating Bagram airbase as part of its plan to withdraw all forces by this year's 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the US, taking military gear home or given to Afghan security forces, but tons of civilian equipment must be left behind. (Photo by Adek Berry/AFP Photo)





A health worker administers a vaccination to a child during a polio campaign in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Gunmen on Tuesday targeted members of polio teams in eastern Afghanistan, killing some staffers, officials said. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





An Afghan man makes solar powered air coolers made from water drums as temperature rises, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 09 June 2021. Locals arranged cooler devices to cope with increasing temperatures which rose up to 40 degrees Celsius. The air cooler costs around 30 USD and works on a DC fan powered by a solar panel thus consuming less power. (Photo by M. Sadiq/EPA/EFE)





Afghan militiamen join Afghan defense and security forces during a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Taliban gains in north Afghanistan, the traditional stronghold of the country's minority ethnic groups who drove the insurgent force from power nearly 20  years ago, has driven a worried government to resurrect militias whose histories have been characterized by chaos and widespread killing. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





An Afghan boy works at a brick kiln in Sarhood district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, 10 June 2021. Labourers, most of whom work barefoot and without gloves, earn from three to seven US dollars a day depending on their working hours and the number of bricks they make, some of them children as young as four or five years old. (Photo by Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA/EFE)





Relatives of the Afghan Army soldiers, who are trapped in Obde district of Herat while fighting against Taliban militants, protest to demand the government evacuate the injured soldiers, in Herat, Afghanistan, 17 June 2021. Afghan authorities said they are in the process to arrange the evacuation of Army soldiers from the restive district soon. There has been a particularly bloody spike in violence in the country in recent weeks, following the start of the withdrawal of US troops from the country, a process due to be complete by September 11. (Photo by Jalil Rezayee/EPA/EFE)





Women walk through a road in Ghazni on June 3, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP Photo)





Afghans return to their village to rebuild their destroyed property after security forces cleared the area of Taliban militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, 31 May 2021. The Afghan government and the Taliban are set to soon resume peace negotiations in Qatar, which have remained stuck for over five months, to try and end nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan. As per the deal, Washington agreed to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by April 2021 – with the deadline subsequently postponed to September – in return for the insurgents committing to drastically reducing violence and participating in negotiations to end the Afghan war. (Photo by Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA/EFE)





Armed men who are against Taliban uprising stand at their check post, at the Ghorband District, Parwan Province, Afghanistan on June 29, 2021. (Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters)





Afghan Hazaras attend the funeral of Mina Khiari, who was killed in bombing last week, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 5, 2021. After the collapse of the Taliban 20 years ago, Afghanistan's ethnic Hazaras began to flourish and soon advanced in various fields, including education and sports, and moved up the ladder of success. They now fear those gains will be lost to chaos and war after the final withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan this summer. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Afghan Hazaras attend the funeral of Mina Khiari, who was killed in bombing last week, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 5, 2021. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Afghan security personnel inspect the site of a bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 1, 2021. An Afghan government spokesman says two bombs exploded in quick succession in separate locations of a neighborhood in west Kabul, leaving multiple people dead and wounded. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Security personnel remove a damaged minivan after a bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 12, 2021. Separate bombs hit two minivans in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in the Afghan capital Saturday, killing several people and wounding others, the Interior Ministry said. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





Afghan militiamen join Afghan defense and security forces during a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Afghanistan’s defense ministry is working with warlords to mobilize local militias across the country, most particularly in the north, to try to stem the tide of the latest Taliban gains. Several key districts in the north of the country have fallen to the Taliban. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





A woman carries an oxygen cylinder from a privately owned oxygen factory, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 19, 2021. Health officials say Afghanistan is fast running out of oxygen as a deadly third surge of COVID worsen. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





An Afghan health worker checks the body of a woman who died from COVID-19 at the Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 30, 2021. Afghanistan is battling a brutal third wave of COVID infections, while health officials plead for vaccines, expressing deep frustration at the inequities of the global vaccine distribution. Positive COVID cases jump from eight percent to 60 per cent in some parts of the country. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





A patient is connected to oxygen tank in the intensive care unit ward for COVID-19 patients at the Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 30, 2021. (Photo by Rahmat Gul/AP Photo)





The coffins of the victims in Tuesday's attack are placed on the ground at a hospital in northern Baghlan province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Workers of the HALO Trust de-mining organization were attacked on Tuesday night by the armed gunmen. (Photo by Mehrab Ibrahimi/AP Photo)





Children stand at a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) where new apartment buildings are located in Kabul on June 21, 2021. (Photo by Adek Berry/AFP Photo)





A man selects valuable items at a recycling workshop near the Bagram Air Base, in Bagram on June 17, 2021. (Photo by Adek Berry/AFP Photo)