Taliban security personnel stand guard as an Afghan burqa-clad woman walks along a street at a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province...
Afghan Taliban militants and villagers attend a gathering as they celebrate the peace deal and their victory in the Afghan conflict on US in...
Afghan burqa-clad women walk past a Taliban security personnel along a street in Jalalabad on April 30, 2023.
In this picture taken on July 15 Afghan militia fighters keep a watch at an outpost against Taliban insurgents at Charkint district in Balkh Province.
Female university Student walks in front of a university in Kandahar Province on December 21, 2022. - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have banned...
Afghan burqa-clad women stand in a queue as they wait to receive food aid from a non-governmental organisation at a gymnasium in Kabul on January 17,...
Afghan female university students stop by Taliban security personnel stand next to a university in Kabul on December 21, 2022. - Afghanistan's...
People gather at the venue for a flag hoisting ceremony of the Taliban flag on the Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul on March 31, 2022.
This picture taken on December 25, 2022 shows student Marwa protesting alone against the ban on women's higher education, outside the Kabul...
Taliban security personnel stand guard along a road in Kabul on December 21, 2022. - Hundreds of young women were stopped by armed guards on December...
Afghan security personnel and Afghan militia fighting against Taliban, stand guard in Enjil district of Herat province on July 30, 2021.
In this photograph taken on September 13 newly recruited Taliban fighters parade in armoured vehicles after their graduation ceremony in Herat.
Former Northern Alliance soldiers ride a vehicle March 8, 2002 towards the town of Gardez, in Afghanistan. Between 700 to 1,000 soldiers with...
Women hold placards during a protest calling for their rights to be recognised, near the Shah-e-Do Shamshira mosque in Kabul on November 24, 2022. -...
Surrendering Taliban militants stand with their weapons as they are presented to the media on November 4, 2010 in Herat, Afghanistan. Twenty Taliban...
Taliban supporters parade through the streets of Kabul on August 15, 2023 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two years ago, the Taliban completed their return to...
Girls walk to their school along a road in Gardez, Paktia porvince, on September 8, 2022. - Five government secondary schools for girls have resumed...
Afghan militia gather with their weapons to support Afghanistan security forces against the Taliban, in Afghan warlord and former Mujahideen leader...
In this picture taken on July 11, 2021 an Afghan militia fighter keeps a watch at an outpost against Taliban insurgents at Charkint district in Balkh...
Surrendering Taliban militants stand with their weapons as they are presented to the media on November 4, 2010 in Herat, Afghanistan. Twenty Taliban...
Taliban security personnel watch Afghan horsemen compete in a traditional Central Asian sport 'buzkashi' during a friendly match between provinces at...
In this picture taken on September 26 Fighters with Afghanistan's Taliban militia stand on a hillside at Maydan Shahr in Wardak province, west of...
Taliban security personnel rest during a parade near the security tower of the vacated US embassy compound in Kabul on August 15 while celebrating...
Taliban members paddle in a boat as they and Afghan families enjoy a visit to one of the lakes in Band-e Amir national park, a popular week-end...
Taliban members stop women protesting for women's rights in Kabul on October 21, 2021. - The Taliban violently cracked down on media coverage of a...
Taliban fighters w. Tank at HQ taken fr. Opposition Hekmatyar mujahedin by radical Islamic cleric-led faction on top in civil war, nr. Govt-held...
Armed Taliban fighters parade atop humvee vehicles as they celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, near...
Taliban fighters stand guard after a gathering attended by Afghanistan's Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund and Minister for Promotion of Virtue...
An Afghan National Army soldier looks towards the Pakistani border only 200 meters away October 17, 2006 near Camp Tillman in the Paktika province of...
Taliban supporters parade through the streets of Kabul on August 15, 2023 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two years ago, the Taliban completed their return to...
Afghan women hold placards as they march to protest for their rights, in Kabul on April 29, 2023. - Afghan women protested in Kabul on April 29,...
Taliban security personnel stand guard ahead of publicly flogging of women and men at a football stadium in Charikar city of Parwan province on...
In this photograph taken on March 28 a member of the anti-Taliban "Sangorians" militia fires a heavy machine gun during an ongoing fight with Taliban...
Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Shirzais men patrol the streets near his compound December 12, 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Kandahar has been peaceful...
Northern Alliance fighters battle pro-Taliban forces November 27, 2001 in a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance, helped...
Taliban security personnel take pictures of his colleague using a mobile phone at the Wazir Akbar Khan hilltop overlooking the Kabul city on April 4,...
Taliban take to the streets during a national holiday celebrating the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover on August 15, 2022 in Kabul,...
Taliban security personnel display seized weapons in Mazar-i-Sharif district of Balkh province on August 29, 2023.
Woman and children ride in a truck during a parade of Taliban supporters on August 15, 2023 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two years ago, the Taliban...
Taliban fighters stand guard next to the weapons on display for media representatives after an operation in which weapons and ammunition were seized...
Taliban fighters atop vehicles with Taliban flags parade along a road to celebrate after the US pulled all its troops out of Afghanistan, in Kandahar...
Burqa-clad woman walks with a girl along a street in Kabul on May 7, 2022. - The Taliban on May 7 imposed some of the harshest restrictions on...
Taliban fighter is pictured against the backdrop of Taliban flags installed at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on September 11, 2021.
People wave Taliban flags as they drive through the Pakistani border town of Chaman on July 14 after the Taliban claimed they had captured the Afghan...
Taliban fighters w. Tank at HQ taken fr. Opposition Hekmatyar mujahedin by radical Islamic cleric-led faction on top in civil war, nr. Govt-held...
Taliban fighters fired into the air as they dispersed a rare rally by women as they chanted "Bread, work and freedom" and marched in front of the...
Taliban security personnel look at a portrait of a burqa-clad woman as they walk past a painting exhibition in Jalalabad on March 20, 2023.
Afghan people stand with food aid being distributed by a non-governmental organisation at a gymnasium in Kabul on January 17, 2023. - At least three...
Taliban fighters travel in a vehicle as they celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, near the airport in...
Smoke rises from the site of an attack after a massive explosion the night before near the Green Village in Kabul on September 3, 2019. - A massive...
Fighters with Afghanistan's Taliban militia stand with their weapons in Ahmad Aba district on the outskirts of Gardez, the capital of Paktia...
Taliban security personnel stand guard at the Wazir Akbar Khan hilltop overlooking Kabul city on July 2, 2023.
Taliban fighters stand on the back of a vehicle as they conducts a 'house to house' inspection in Herat, on September 11, 2022.
British soldiers from the B Squadron of the Light Dragoons Regiment read magazines in a location in the desert while conducting counter-Taliban...
American soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division deploy to fight Taliban fighters as part of Operation Mountain Thrust to a U.S. Base near the...
Convoy of Taliban security personnel seen moving along the streets as they celebrate the third anniversary of Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, in...
Taliban security personnel sits in a vehicle in front of the Hazrat-e-Ali shrine or the blue mosque on the occasion of Nowruz, in Mazar-i-Sharif on...