Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: July 2016

Al-Hajj Delbar Nazari - Minister of Women’s Affairs of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Tired of the Estezah? Minister for Women’s Affairs survives vote of no confidence

Thomas Ruttig •

The Minister for Women’s Affairs, Delbar Nazari, has narrowly survived a vote of no confidence in parliament earlier this month. This is the latest in a long series of such motions against ministers that have become a means of carrying out political confrontations by proxy in parliament since a long time. MPs, however, seem to […]

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Speaking to an Afghan Disciple of the Caliphate

AAN •

The Diplomat, 28 July 2016 This very interesting article, including results of a face-to-face interview with an IS commander in Nangrahar province, has a short reference to AAN’s Borhan Osman writing about the situation in Achin district, one of the few IS’s remaining strongholds in the country.

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The Islamic State in ‘Khorasan’: How it began and where it stands now in Nangarhar

Borhan Osman •

The Islamic State’s local franchise in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the TUTAP protests in Kabul on 23 July 2016. The attack killed more than 80 people and injured over 230 others in Deh Mazang Square in western Kabul. The target of […]

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IS under press i Afghanistan

Thomas Ruttig •

TT/Göteborgs-Posten, 26 July 2016 The Swedish news agency quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the situation of IS in Afghanistan after the 23 July Kabul terror attack: – De har förlorat mycket av det territorium som de kontrollerat där, och det var inte mycket till att börja med. IS har pressats tillbaka av amerikanska drönar- och flygattacker, […]

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IS claims responsibility for Kabul terror attack

Thomas Ruttig •

ABC Australia, 25 July 2016 A few quotes of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this transcript of the Australian broadcaster’s “The full story” programme on the 23 July Kabul terror attack: (…) Thomas Ruttig from the Afghanistan Analysts Network says while Taliban attacks do kill civilians, it doesn’t usually target them. That’s because, he says, the […]

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Highest ever civilian casualties reflect evolution of conflict

Thomas Ruttig •

Radio France International, 25 July 2016 Quotes of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on UNAMA’s latest report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan on the website of France’s international radio: “After the breakdown of attempts to get peace talks with the Taliban going, the Afghan government has said we will switch to a military solution for the time […]

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Der IS schlägt in Afghanistan zu

Thomas Ruttig •

SRF, 24 July 2016 Listen to the audio (in German) on Swiss radio of a live interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about how strong the IS is in Afghanistan, as context to the heavy terror attack on 23 July in Kabul.

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IS-Anschlag in Afghanistan: Angriffsziel Zivilisten

Thomas Ruttig •

Tageszeitung, 25 July 2016 Summary of the facts about the IS-claimed terror attack on a Hazara protest demonstration in Kabul, by “Thomas Ruttig and Afghanistan Analysts Network, Kabul”. Among other things, Thomas writes that the IS in Afghanistan is actually weak, has suffered territorial losses and might therefore take recourse to terrorist attacks. The infrastructure, […]

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L’Isis contro la piazza: 81 morti a Kabul

AAN •

il manifesto, 24 July 2016 In context with the 23 July Kabul terror attack, Giuliano Battiston explains the background of the “enlightenment” protest movement and Afghanistan’s dependency on external sources for electrical power, quoting from an earlier AAN dispatch, for the left-wing Italian daily: Attraverso questi progetti, l’Afghanistan – tra i 5 paesi con il […]

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Blutiger Anschlag in Kabul: Der IS weitet sein Einsatzgebiet in Afghanistan aus

AAN •

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 July 2016 The leading Swiss daily quotes AAN’s Obaid Ali on the IS’s strength in Afghanistan, saying that this is difficult to determine, that Islamist groups in other parts of the country [beyond Nangrahar] have declared their allegiance to IS but that this has more to do with distancing themselves from […]

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The road that Maruf and his friends took to start off their odyssey from the shahrak to Vienna. From Herat, it runs all the way to Kabul and destinations such as Nimruz in-between and symbolizes the coming and going of people and goods in the emerging transnational community between the shahrak and Europe. (Source S Reza Kazemi)

Afghan Exodus: Maruf’s tale of an emerging transnational community between Herat and Europe

S Reza Kazemi •

Between 2014 and mid-2016, thousands of people left Herat – a major urban centre in western Afghanistan – for various European countries. Since August 2014, Said Reza Kazemi (*) has been tracking Maruf and 24 of his friends and acquaintances, who have made the trip. The case of this young Afghan and his network shows […]

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