Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: November 2016

Afghan forces break from tradition and launch winter offensive

Thomas Ruttig •

Stars and Stripes, 21 November 2016 A short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the recently started government forces’ winter offensive: Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said that while many Taliban used to go to Pakistan over the winter in the past, now many tend to stay in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, he said, […]

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Parliament Kicks Out Ministers Again: A multi-dimensional power struggle

Thomas Ruttig •

The Afghan parliament’s lower house has sacked seven ministers in a new wave of interpellations (estizah). It is not clear who instigated the estizah motions, MPs themselves or Palace intrigue, or who will come out as the winner (the president has told the ministers to stay in their posts and called on the Supreme Court […]

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ترامپ در مورد افغانستان چه سیاستی در پیش می‌گیرد؟

Thomas Ruttig •

BBC (Persian service), 18 November 2016 Quotes from Thomas Ruttig and Kate Clark’s AAN dispatch thinking about the possibly Afghanistan policy of US president-elect Donald Trump in this analysis: توماس روتیگ و کیت کلارک، پژوهشگران شبکه تحلیلگران افغانستان در تحلیلی در مورد این اظهار نظرهای آقای ترامپ نوشته‌اند: “رئیس جمهوری منتخب و تیم او در […]

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The new battle over the longest war: What can Afghans expect from the new US president?

Thomas Ruttig •

The Friday Times, 18 November 2016 The liberal Pakistani weekly published a shortened version of Thomas Ruttig and Kate Clark’s AAN dispatch about how new US President Trump’s Afghanistan policy could be expected t look like.

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Isis in Afghanistan: ‘Their peak is over, but they are not finished’

AAN •

The Guardian, 17 November 2016 AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted here on IS’ strength in Afghanistan: Borhan Osman, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said that although Isis had lost half its initial territory in Nangarhar, it seemed to have dug in firmly in its four districts. “They have proved to be irremovable from these areas,” […]

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One Step Closer to War Crime Trials? New ICC report on Afghanistan

Ehsan Qaane • Kate Clark •

The International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor has said it will “imminently” be taking a decision on whether to request authorisation from judges to commence an investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan. The Taleban could be investigated, among other offences, for murder and intentionally attacking civilians, while Afghan government forces, and the US military […]

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Machtkampf im Kabinett: Afghanistans ewige Baustelle

Thomas Ruttig •

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 16 November 2016 The most important Swiss daily extensively quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig – directly and indirectly – in its article about the seven ministers sacked by Afghan parliament, and on the continuing political crisis (in German). The headline: “Power struggle in cabinet: the for-ever construction site.”

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Podcast: Can Trump Solve The Afghanistan, Pakistan Impasse?

Thomas Ruttig •

RFE/RL Gandhara blog, 16 November 2016 Listen to or download this podcast about the new US administration’s possible approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan, with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, Woodrow Wilson School’s Michael Kugelmann, Gandhara’s Abu Bakr Siddique and host Muhammad Taher.

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Bürgerkrieg in Afghanistan: Wer ist der Stärkste im ganzen Land?

Thomas Ruttig •

Tageszeitung, 15 November 2016 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin-based daily, looking at the latest Taleban attacks (on Bagram air base and the German consulate in Mazar) and its implications (in German).

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In October, over 3,000 Afghans killed and wounded

AAN •

Pajhwok, 14 November 2016 Kabul-based news agency Pajhwok – that has started to regularly report its own war casualty figures from Afghanistan – has published the October 2016 figures: “As many as 3,285 people have been killed and wounded in 193 attacks across Afghanistan last month, showing a 35 percent increase in assaults and 83 […]

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Afghanistan: Die Rückkehr des Taliban-Albtraums

Thomas Ruttig •

Telepolis (blog), 12 November 2016 This entry into one of the most active German political blogs refers to the “longer, but well readable and comprehensible analysis by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and Kate Clark”: Die Frage ist nun, wie die Nato und vor allem die USA auf die Ausbreitung der Taliban reagieren sollen. Der frisch gewählte […]

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“Die Situation verschlechtert sich”: Was die Anschläge in Afghanistan für das Land bedeuten

Thomas Ruttig •

dpa/Huffington Post (Germany), 12 November 2016 The German press agency quotes from AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig’s interview with Deutsche Welle, in an analysis of the recent Taleban attacks in Bagram and Mazar-e Sharif: Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig sagte nun der „Deutschen Welle“: “Die Situation verschlechtert sich. Es gibt nicht wirklich Gebiete, die sicher sind; sie sind vielleicht eine […]

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