Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: September 2014

Afghanistan’s NATO coalition shrinking fast

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AP, 3 September 2014 Good overview at the eve of the NATO summit in Wales (which still cannot decide about post-ISAF NATO deployments due to the ongoing lack of the BSA) about which ISAF troop contributors are still there and which are leaving. Also see NATO’s ISAF troop “placemat” here.

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Umzingelung von Kunduz: Warum die Taliban wieder so erfolgreich sind.

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Nachtwei.de, 2 September 2014 Winnie Nachtwei, former long-term Green MP in Germany and still a regular Afghanistan watcher, summarises AAN’s latest Kunduz dispatch by Lola Cecchinel on his website (in German).

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Vorwärts in die Vergangenheit: Afghanistan und die Nato

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Tagesspiegel (Berlin), 2 September 2014 This is a first: an AAN dispatch is quoted by a newspaper from another newspaper (Frankfurter Allgemeine), about the deteriorating security situation in Kunduz.

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Taleban Closing in on the City: The next round of the tug-of-war over Kunduz

Lola Cecchinel •

Within the past two months, the Taleban have managed to secure additional territory around the provincial capital of Kunduz and have been closing in on the city itself. They also gained nearly full control over several districts of the province. On 12 August and then again around 22 August, the ANSF conducted operations. Authorities claimed […]

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Des trésors contre des armes/Blutige Beute

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ARTE, 2 September 2014 Extremely interesting documentary film about illicit diggings for and the international trafficking of cultural artifacts in Afghanistans, how it is smuggled abroad and also the ‘end users’, here mainly art dealers in downtown Brussels. The movie shows amazing pieces that should be in Afghan museums (52 min., available till 9 September 2014 […]

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Hamed Karzai as translator for Pir Gailani, likely in 1992. Source: archive/unknown (please let us known when you have the copyright for this)

Book Excerpt: Scenes of Afghan History – Hamed Karzai before 2001

AAN Team •

As many influential Pashtuns, in the country and the diaspora, the Karzai family – and Hamed Karzai himself – offered support to the Taleban after they emerged in 1994 but were rejected by the movement’s leadership. They turned against them and – after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 – made overtures to the ‘Northern Alliance’ […]

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With a Little Help From His Friends: A new biography of Hamed Karzai

Thomas Ruttig •

With only a few days left in the last of Karzai’s two 5-year tenures as head of state (the inauguration of his – still unknown – successor has just been postponed again), Dutch journalist Bette Dam presents the reviewed and updated English version of her biography of the politician who has shaped Afghanistan’s last 14 […]

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Can Afghanistan Survive Its Presidential Election?

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Eurasia Review (FPRI), 1 September 2014 This analysis of the Afghan presidential elections draws on several AAN dispatches and the compilation “Key Documents underwriting the electoral agreement” as sources.

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