Afghanistan crisis in pics: Future uncertain for women, kids as Taliban takes over

One in two children under age 5 in the country are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, said Mustapha Ben Messaoud, chief of field operations for UNICEF.

And with the COVID-19 pandemic still surging, UN officials also report seeing 100 deaths per day and 2,000 new positive cases of the coronavirus per day.

A report released last month from the United Nations also showed an increase in women and children killed and injured in May and June, which coincides with U.S. and other international troops starting to depart the region. Here, an Afghani woman along with her kid seen walking amid unrest in Afghanistan, at Afghan Ghetto, Lajpat Nagar, in New Delhi.

People try to get into Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

The UN refugee agency says nearly 250,000 Afghans have fled their homes since the end of May amid fears the Taliban would reimpose their strict and ruthless interpretation of Islam, all but eliminating women’s rights. Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi is seen in the photo here. 

Thousands of people packed into the Afghan capital's airport on Monday, rushing the tarmac and pushing onto planes in desperate attempts to flee the country after Taliban insurgents took control of the country. Here, in the picture, an Afghan girl gets emotional over the situation unfolding in her homeland as she awaits news from Kabul waiting outside the Afghanistan embassy in New Delhi.