Afghanistan

Taliban security personnel stand guard at a checkpoint in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on the eve of the third anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan on August 13, 2024. (Sanaullah Seiam/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghan women use sewing machines at a workshop in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on December 1, 2022. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

An Afghan man sells Taliban flags in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 13, 2024. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

A Taliban security personnel holds his gun as he rides zipline on the outskirts of Kabul on July 4, 2024. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

Members of the Taliban gather to commemorate the one year anniversary of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in Kabul on August 21, 2022. (Marcus Yam via Getty Images)

Emergency services vehicles are seen outside the burning Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia, on March 22, 2024. (Stringer via Getty Images)

Taliban fighters stand guard near a car damaged by multiple rockets in Kabul on August 30, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

Pakistani President Arif Alvi administers the oath to newly sworn-in Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 4, 2024. (Pakistan President House/AFP via Getty Images)

Soldiers from Task Force Stalwart on March 28, 2018, in a post in the outskirts of Afghanistan. (US Army via DVIDS)

Afghan men load food packets from the World Food Programme onto a vehicle in Baraki Barak, Afghanistan, on January 7, 2024. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

A supporter of Ahmad Massoud, leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NFR) and the leading Afghan fighter against the Taliban, holds a flag with an NRF logo as he demonstrates outside Concordia Press Club in Vienna, Austria, on September 16, 2022. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO's chief Jens Stoltenberg hold a press conference on April 14, 2021, at NATO's headquarters in Brussels. (Kenzo Tribouillard/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)