EditorialStudents in their high school’s courtyard, where the flag of the Afghan republic has been replaced with the Taliban’s black-and-white flag, in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, Oct. 9, 2021. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
EditorialA Taliban guard pushes back a crowd as a bank teller reads out the names of those allowed to enter a bank in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, Oct. 9, 2021. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
Editorial Day laborers gather in central Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, as they do every day after the morning prayer, hoping to pick up some work and earn enough to feed their families. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
Editorial Day laborers gather in central Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, as they do every day after the morning prayer, hoping to pick up some work and earn enough to feed their families. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
EditorialA classroom filled with female students at Fatima Balkh High School in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Oct. 9, 2021. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
EditorialPoorly equipped anti-Taliban militia fighters stationed near Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan on July 15, 2021, weeks before the government collapsed. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
EditorialAn Afghan militia mans an outpost built with blast-resistant Hesco barriers supplied by the U.S. military near the Uzbek border, north of Mazar-i-Sharif, in July 2021. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
EditorialMilitiamen in a pickup truck belonging to the Afghan National Army outside Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, on July 10, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialAtta Muhammad Noor left, a political party leader, and his son Khalid, a member of the Afghan government?s negotiating team, at a meeting hall in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, July 10, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
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