“We are able to tackle Daesh independently,” Shaheen said. Washington considers IS its greatest terrorist threat emanating from Afghanistan. On Saturday, however, IS, an enemy of the Ta- liban, has claimed re- sponsibility for a number of recent attacks, includ- ing Friday’s suicide bombing that killed 46 minority Shiite Muslims. during the talks that the Taliban are commit- ted to seeing that Afghan soil is not used by ex- tremists to launch at- tacks against other coun- tries. Taliban political spokesman Suhail Sha- heen also told The Asso- ciated Press that the movement’s interim for- eign minister assured the U.S. 15 after the U.S.-allied govern- ment collapsed. The United States made it clear that the talks were in no way a preamble to recognition of the Taliban, who swept into power Aug. The Taliban said the talks held in Doha, Qatar, “went well,” with Wash- ington freeing up hu- manitarian aid to Af- ghanistan after agreeing not to link such assis- tance to formal recogni- tion of the Taliban. There was no immedi- ate comment from the U.S.

The statement came at the end of the ﬁrst direct talks between the former foes since the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghan- istan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the coun- try’s new Taliban rulers, the Taliban said Sunday. Ohio | TUESDAY, OCTO| 11B ISLAMABAD – The U.S.

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