Four young girls dressed in matching outfits hold Taliban flags on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal and the start of Taliban rule in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Nava Jamshidi)
A staff member with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) speaks with displaced women in the eastern province of Nangahar in Afghanistan. (Photo: UN)
A Taliban security personnel stands guard as Afghan burqa-clad women wait in queue in the midst of a downpour to receive food supplies donated during the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul on March 25, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
Faye Hall (C) speaks on the phone after her release by the Taliban on March 29, 2025, alongside Qatar’s envoy Mirdef Alqashouti (L), in an image from a diplomatic source in Kabul. (Photo: AFP)
A signboard with the warning 'Photography and Video recording forbidden' is displayed along a street in Kabul on October 22, 2024. (Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP)
President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House, Aug. 1, 2022, as he announces that a US airstrike killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan (Photo: Jim Watson/Pool via AP)
When the Taliban first established themselves in Afghanistan, it was widely recognized that Pakistani intelligence was behind the new organization. (Photo: AFP)
