Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: August 2015

Profile: Mullah Akhtar Mansoor

Thomas Ruttig •

al-Jazeera, 4 August 2015 In this profile of the new but still disputed Taleban leader, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted, including about his 2001 encounter with the man in Kabul when still the Taleban’s civil aviation minister: Thomas Ruttig, co-director and senior analyst of the Afghanistan Analysts Network (ANN), had brief encounters with both Mullah […]

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Thematic Dossier X: Peace talks and reconciliation

AAN Team •

The flurry of recent ‘peace-related’ events – talks about talks, actual talks, denials of talks, re-definitions of peace, attacks and key figures dying – has compelled AAN to take another look at the whole body of our work on the subject. This “Peace Talks and Reconciliation Thematic Dossier” brings you all related AAN analyses in one […]

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Regime-Wechsel bei den Taliban

Thomas Ruttig •

Frankfurter Rundschau, 3 August 2015 Op-ed by Thomas Ruttig on the change at the Taleban top from Mulla Omar to Mulla Mansur, including a rendering of his meeting with the former in late 2000 as a UN political officer about an attempt to start peace talks. Thomas analyses how the Taleban have worked under Mulla […]

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Der Tod eines obskuren Gurus: Was der Tod des Taliban-Führers Mullah Omar für Afghanistans Zukunft bedeutet

Thomas Ruttig •

IPG-Journal, 3 August 2015 In his column in the Berlin-based political web journal, Sven Hansen (of taz daily) quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the political fragmentation of the Taleban in more than just two factions, pro- and anti-talks: Damit gibt es laut Thomas Ruttig vom Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) jetzt drei Taliban-Positionen zu Verhandlungen: 1. Gegner […]

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Neuer Talibanführer will weiterkämpfen

Thomas Ruttig •

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2 August 2015 The leading Swiss daily, in its article reporting the first speech of the new Taleban leader quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on Mullah Mansur’s political agenda: Mullah Mansur seems to continue to be interested in a political solution but tries to limit Pakistan’s influence [on possible talks]. His moving the Taleban […]

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Tod des Talibanchefs Mullah Omar: Strategisch platzierte Todesnachricht

Thomas Ruttig •

Tageszeitung, 1 August 2015 In a full article (both online and in the print issue), AAN’s Thomas Ruttig summarises the events around the announcements of Taleban leader Mullah Omar’s death and the – challenged – selection of Mullah Mansur as his successor.

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