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)
A boy looks at portraits displayed on a fence by the Social Association of Afghan Justice Seekers (SAAJS) of Afghan nationals who died in previous wars in Afghanistan, in Kabul on January 9, 2022. (Photo: Mohd RASFAN / AFP)
A Taliban official (C) addresses journalists near the Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan military hospital in Kabul on November 2, 2021, after at least 19 people were killed and 50 others wounded in an attack on a military hospital. (Photo: Wakil
Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov speaks to the media during an international conference on Afghanistan with Taliban representatives in Moscow on Oct. 20, 2021. (Photo: ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO / AFP)
