Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: September 2015

Les talibans prennent Kunduz, l’armée afghane piétine

AAN •

Libération, 30 September 2015 The French daily quotes briefly from AAN: Cette fois, selon l’Afghanistan Analysts Network, les talibans et leurs alliés ont lancé leur offensive depuis la bande dite de Gortepa, qui regroupe une cinquantaine de villages situés à proximité de Kunduz. Ils s’en étaient emparés lors de leur offensive d’avril ; l’armée afghane n’en […]

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Fall of Kunduz reveals Afghanistan’s security gaps

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Al Jazeera America, 30 September 2015 AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted here about Afghan government response and challenges it will face in recapturing Kunduz: “The [Afghan] government has, unsurprisingly, announced its commitment to recapture Kunduz. It seems entirely likely it can do this, but it will come at great cost to its own forces and to civilians,” Borhan […]

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Taliban kunnen op veel sympathie rekenen

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De Standaard, 30 September 2015 AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted here about the Taleban success in Kunduz: “De Taliban kunnen op sympathie van de bevolking rekenen”.

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The Fall of Kunduz: What does it tell us about the strength of the post-Omar Taleban?

Borhan Osman •

The capture of Kunduz by the Taleban has surely written off any idea of the movement having been seriously undermined or fractured by the death of Mullah Omar and the leadership dispute that followed. His successor, Akhtar Mansur may still face some resistance from dissidents within the movement, but on the battlefield, the Taleban under […]

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A Taliban Prize, Won in a Few Hours After Years of Strategy

Thomas Ruttig •

New York Times, 30 September 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here on the background of the Taleban attack on Kunduz, with their first assault in April: By spring, the Taliban had begun to test Kunduz City itself, mostly coming through Chahar Dara, the district to its west. “They rolled into the city but were […]

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La OTAN envía fuerzas especiales a Kunduz para ayudar al Ejército afgano

Thomas Ruttig •

El País, 30 September 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is also quoted in the Spanish daily’s second article about Kunduz, on the role of NATO in the Kunduz battle: Una fuente militar anónima citada por France Presse ha explicado que en el despliegue hay soldados de élite estadounidenses, británicos y alemanes. “Son muy pocos, apenas 40 […]

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¿Por qué están de vuelta los talibanes?

Thomas Ruttig •

El País, 30 September 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted extensively here in one of the largest Spanish newspapers on the Taleban takeover of Kunduz, the strength of the insurgents, ethnic rifts and the balance of territorial control: “Son más fuertes de lo que se admite oficialmente”, asegura Thomas Ruttig, co-director del Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) en […]

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Afghanistan: Die gescheiterte Mission

AAN •

Westfälische Rundschau, 30 September 2015 Thanks to the German daily: In a comment about the Taleban takeover of Kunduz, it found an AAN prediction from 2013 that “civil war is the most likely scenario” for future Afghanistan. (We wrote that there already is a civil war in ongoing and it is likely to continue…): Die […]

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Fall of Kunduz threatens to erode confidence in Afghan government

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Los Angeles Times, 30 September 2015 AAN’s Obaid Ali is quoted here about some background for the Taleban success in Kunduz: “The people are fed up with these strongmen that are essentially carrying out their personal ambitions and abusing the people,” said Obaid Ali, a Kabul-based analyst who has traveled extensively in Kunduz. […] “The […]

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Taliban im Zentrum von Kundus

Thomas Ruttig •

Tageszeitung, 29 September 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig with a first report on the Taleban’s second assault in 2015 on Kunduz, the former main base of the German troops in Afghanistan (in German).

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