Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: January 2017

It’s time for Trump to explain what will happen in Afghanistan

Thomas Ruttig •

The Hill, 5 January 2017 This blog entry, still looking for a Trump Afghanistan policy, quotes, among others, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, with a statement originally in an article in The Atlantic: According to Thomas Ruttig, the co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, Washington is “is by far the largest spender on the Afghan armed forces and […]

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Afghan woman: sold like a goat, treated like a dog

AAN •

Daily Times, 3 January 2016 In an op-ed article in the Pakistani daily, the author quotes AAN research on cases of women rights abuses in Afghanistan (but mingled some facts): On 25 October 2015, Afghanistan Analyst Network in its paper reported 19 years old girl Miss Rukhshanda was stoned to death in Feroz Koh district […]

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Badakhshan – from anti-Taleban bulwark to contested province. Photo: Mirco Kreibich (2005).

The Non-Pashtun Taleban of the North (1): A case study from Badakhshan

Obaid Ali •

The Taleban movement is winning ground in the northern province of Badakhshan, a province that was never conquered when the Taleban were in power in the 1990s. Over the past two years, a new generation of largely Tajik Taleban has come to pose a serious challenge for the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) : a […]

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Taliban ramp up attacks in southwestern Afghanistan as NATO casualties hit a low

AAN •

Stars and Stripes, 2 January 2017 Reporting a new Taleban offensive in two Helmand districts, the US-based daily quotes from earlier AAN research and quotes AAN’s Fazal Muzhary: The Afghanistan Analysts Network said in report last year that Afghan forces are struggling to fend off the insurgents because of a lack of coordination among army […]

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AAN’s 50 Most-Read Dispatches: War, headgear, politics…

Kate Clark •

AAN researchers, individually, each follow the topics that interest us – although we also keep an eye on overall output to make sure we keep our coverage broad and our topics various. But what about you, our readers: what are you interested in? Three years after re-vamping the AAN website in 2014, we took a […]

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