FILE - An Afghan woman exits a convenience shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/ Petros Giannakouris, File)
FILE - Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi, File)
FILE - Afghan refugees settle in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham, Afghanistan, on Nov. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
FILE - In this photo released by the state-run WAM news agency, Emirati leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi, left, shakes hands with Taliban official Sirajuddin Haqqani at Qasr Al Shati palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on June 4, 2024. (WAM via AP, File)
FILE - Afghan volunteers clean up rubble after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, on Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
FILE - Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
FILE - A Taliban fighter stands guard in the Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
FILE - In this undated and unknown location photo, the new leader of Taliban fighters, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada is photographed. (Afghan Islamic Press via AP, File)