Taliban condemned for threats to media in Afghanistan

FILE PHOTO: Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a consultative grand assembly, known as Loya Jirga, in Kabul, Afghanistan April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani

KABUL (Reuters) - The United States and Afghanistan on Tuesday denounced a Taliban warning that Afghan media will be targeted unless they stop broadcasting what the group called "anti-Taliban statements".

Radio stations, TV channels and other media organisations had one week to stop transmitting "anti-Taliban advertisements", the group's military commission said in a statement on Monday.