Kabul/Washington, June 14 (TIWN) Kenneth McKenzie, Commander of the US Central Command, has said that Washington will seek to "keep pressure" on the Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda terror groups in Afghanistan, a media report said on Monday.

"We will still do everything we can to keep pressure on the IS and Al Qaeda, from our over-the-horizon locations," TOLO News quoted quoted McKenzie as saying in an interview with Military Times.

"That is a task I've been given. Those are plans I'm in discussion with now with the Secretary of Defense. How we will do that, I've said before, that will be a very difficult thing to do," he added.

Regarding a recent UN report warning that the Taliban appeared poised to take back control of Afghanistan, McKenzie said: "We still intend to support the Afghan military from just over the horizon. We're still going to support them with funding.

"We're going to try very hard to support the Afghan air force over the horizon; some things will come out of the country to be worked on.

"I don't want to minimise this, because I think they're going to be tested, but we will continue to support them, just not in the way we are supporting them now."