The Taliban have released a statement condemning photographs from 2010 depicting US soldiers posing with the dismembered bodies of suicide bombers and Afghan police.

Thursday's statement comes a day after the Los Angeles Times exclusively published two pictures of the 82nd Airborne that the group called "inhuman".

The Taliban "strongly condemns the brutal and inhuman act by the American invading force and their uncultured slaves", they said in a statement.

"This is what the invading Americans teach to their Afghan slaves", the group said referring to the Afghan security forces.

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