Western Nations Concerned By Presence Of Extremist Groups In...

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WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Some western countries expressed grave concern about the presence and operations of extremist groups in Afghanistan and royal toto 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)