Western nations concerned by presence of extremist groups in Afghanistan

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some western countries expressed grave concern about the presence and operations of extremist groups in Afghanistan and said the Taliban were not meeting their counter-terrorism commitments.

Special envoys and representatives for Afghanistan of the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States met last week and released a joint communiqué on Thursday in which they said the presence of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was recently killed in a U.S. strike, showed the Taliban was not keeping its commitment.

(Reporting by Costas Pitas, writing by Kanishka Singh; editing by Chris Gallagher)

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