Taliban arrest 4 Islamic State militants north of Kabul

By RAHIM FAEIZ and SAMYA KULLAB
Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban say they arrested four Islamic State militants north of the Afghan capital, while witnesses say two Taliban fighters were shot dead in the country’s northeast, raising the specter of a widening conflict. The Taliban spokesman said on Wednesday that an operation was carried out on Tuesday night by the Taliban in Kabul province in which documents and weapons were seized. Meanwhile, a Qatari plane evacuated more than 300 people from Kabul, including the country’s cricket team and several Afghan journalists seeking to flee the Taliban rule, as well as foreign nationals. It was the sixth and largest airlift by Qatar since the U.S. and NATO pullout.