Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: December 2016

UK criticised for failure to tell Afghan warlord’s victims of his release

AAN •

The Guardian, 14 December 2016 The British daily quotes AAN’s Kate Clark on the early release of Hezb-e Islami commander Zardad – one of the few Afghan war criminals ever convicted – by the UK and the failure to inform at least some victims of and witnesses against him, who has been welcomed at home […]

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Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan

Thomas Ruttig •

ZDF, 14 December 2016 In this clip about the first German return flight of rejected Afghan asylum seekers to Kabul, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig can be seen with a short statement on the Afghan security situation (in German).    

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Afghan War Criminal Zardad Freed: No protection for witnesses

Kate Clark •

One of the few Afghans convicted of war crimes has been released from a British jail and deported to Afghanistan. Faryadi Sarwar Zardad, a Hezb-e Islami commander, was convicted in 2005 of hostage-taking and torture. He preyed on people fleeing the civil war in Kabul in the mid-1990s, infamously keeping a ‘human dog’, a man […]

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Paktika Girls Deprived Of An Education

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Tolonews, 18 November 2016 An eye-opening report about the real picture of girls education in Afghanistan: While the provincial authorities of Paktika admit that not a single girl has finished class 12 since 2001, they promise tht the first ones will do so this year. But civil society activists doubt even this: “We could not find […]

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IS fighter distributes propaganda material to inhabitants of Kot district.

ISKP’s Battle for Minds: What are its main messages and who do they attract?

Borhan Osman •

The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) uses propaganda to carve out new space in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s already crowded jihadi landscape. It uses popular media and promotes a distinct narrative of Salafi-jihadism tailored to local preferences and focused on specific themes. In the first part of this dispatch, AAN’s Borhan Osman analyses the propaganda messages […]

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ISIS Is Blowing Up Mosques in Kabul: Attacks on Shia Hazaras deepens ethnic and religious schisms

Thomas Ruttig •

War is Boring, 9 December 2016 The web-based magazine looks into the recent IS anti-Shia violence in Afghanistan. AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted at some length here, somewhat contradicting the hypothesis given in the articles title: “I actually doubt that the sectarian divide has increased as a result of Daesh violence in Afghanistan,” says Thomas […]

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Scenes from Ashton Carter’s trip to Afghanistan

AAN •

The Economist, 9 December 2016 The weekly’s columnist “Lexington” has accompanied outgoing US secretary of defence Ashton Carter on his last journey to South Asia, including Afghanistan. An extremely interesting read. For example here: For any reporter who visited Afghanistan at the height of the war, it is startling to hear how America’s objectives have […]

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Eine Bedrohung unter vielen: Der afghanische Ableger der Terrororganisation »Islamischer Staat« verübt immer häufiger Anschläge auf die schiitische Minderheit

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Jungle World, 8 December 2016 This article, looking at the threat Daesh’s Afghan chapter poses in the country, the author quotes from Borhan Osman’s recent AAN dispatch: Das Auftreten und die Vorgehensweise der Islamisten könnten nach Einschätzungen Borhan Osmans vom Afghanistan Analysts Network verheerende Folgen haben. Zum einen bestehe die Gefahr, dass der ISKP eine […]

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Abschiebung nach Afghanistan: Erzwungene Rückkehr

Thomas Ruttig •

Deutschlandfunk, 8 December 2016 In this article exploring what rejected Afghan asylum seekers have to expect when sent back from Germany, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted as saying that the reasons why Afghan flee their country are complex, but that Afghans feel threatened by war and terrorism. he further says that the discussion about deportations […]

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نزاع و کشمکش ادامه‌دار در افغانستان

Thomas Ruttig •

Ettelaat-e Ruz, 13 Qaus 1395 (5 December 2016) The Kabul-based daily publishes an article by The Diplomat about the latest round of dismissals of cabinet ministers by Afghan parliament that contains longer quotes from Thomas Ruttig’s AAN dispatch about the subject.

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Fluchthilfepreis: Illegale Heldentat

Thomas Ruttig •

Deutschlandfunk, 5 December 2016 The German radio reports about the Lower Saxony Refugee Council given an award to German Franziska Hagelstein who brought a 14-years old Afghan refugee to Germany and took him into her family. AAN’s Thomas Ruttig  is quoted in this article about why Afghans flee their country: “Afghanistan ist ganz sicher kein […]

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Opium bestrijden met safraanbollen

Martine van Bijlert •

Missie Afghanistan, 4 December 2016 Article on the efforts to combat poppy cultivation in Uruzgan quotes an old memo from 2005 co-authored by AAN’s Martine van Bijlert. The article is part of a multimedia review of the Dutch involvement in Uruzgan. Misschien nog wel belangrijker dan de hoge opbrengst van papaver: de sociale en politieke […]

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