Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: September 2017

Ein Land erodiert: Wie Afghanistan in Machtkämpfen versinkt

Thomas Ruttig •

Frankfurter Allgemeine, 15 September 2017 In this reportage about new factional conflicts in northern Afghanistan, from Mazar-e Sharif and Sherberghan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is briefly quoted about the re-emerging Hezb-e Islami presence in the area: So etwa Juma Khan Hamdard, einem Gegenspieler Attas im Norden, dessen Anhänger nun „spürbar die Vorherrschaft des Gouverneurs herausfordern“, wie […]

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Dans les campagnes, la vie sous les talibans

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La Croix, 14 September 2017 The French daily quotes Alex Strick van Linschoten from his AAN report on the ideology of the Taleban: « L’idéologie talibane s’est transformée ces deux dernières décennies, note le chercheur Alex Strick van Linschoten dans un rapport du think tank Afghanistan Analysts Network. Leur vision du monde n’est pas moins conservative ou […]

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Afghan Asylum Seekers in Italy: A place of temporary respite

Fabrizio Foschini • Jelena Bjelica •

The number of Afghan asylum seekers in Italy has been steadily rising over the last decade. Numbers grew particularly rapidly between 2013 and 2015 and only in recent months have they slowed down. Throughout the last ten years, not only has Italy become a fixture in the mental map of Afghan migrants, but it has […]

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Afghanistan: Abschiebung ins Kriegschaos

Thomas Ruttig •

Frankfurter Rundschau, 12 September 2017 After Germany’s latest deportation charter flight, this article quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the disputable official German government assessment of the Afghan security situation: Günter Burkhardt, Geschäftsführer von Pro Asyl sagte der FR noch vor dem Abflug: „Die Situation in Afghanistan eskaliert und ist unkalkulierbar. Die jetzige Abschiebung ist rein […]

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U.S. Historian Nancy Dupree Dies, Aged 89

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AFP/Newsweek Pakistan and Express Tribune, 11 September 2017 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in this obituary for renowned Afghanistan scholar Nancy Dupree: “She was passionate about education and sharing knowledge and making sure Afghans had access to the records of their own history,” said Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. Express Tribune article here.

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Nancy Hatch Dupree’s Last Project: Afghan History Revealed in Photographs

Martine van Bijlert • Kate Clark •

AAN was due to post this dispatch when we heard the news of the death of the great archivist, historian and advocate for Afghanistan, Nancy Hatch Dupree. The piece looks at Nancy’s last project, the uploading of thousands of historical photographs to the website of the Afghanistan Centre at the Kabul University (ACKU), the successor […]

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Life of Afghans, under fire and fury

Thomas Ruttig •

The Hindu, 10 September 2017 Also with a look at the US air war under Trump’s new strategy, the Indian daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: However, with the increasing number of civilian casualties, the approach to the Afghan war is being reviewed with a critical eye and deep concerns. “The rules of engagement have been […]

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Trieste ricorda Vladimir Bartol, autore di ‘Alamut’: vi dice niente Assassin’s Creed?

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Diario di Trieste, 9 September 2017 AAN’s Fabrizio Foschini mentioned here, on an event in Trieste: Martedì 12 settembre, cinquantenario della scomparsa di Bartol – nato nel quartiere di San Giovanni, a Trieste, nel 1903 e morto a Lubiana, appunto, il 12 settembre del 1967 – se ne parlerà nel corso di un incontro con […]

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Den Kollaps aufhalten – Afghanistan: Die USA setzen mit dem Truppennachschub auf ein Patt gegenüber den Taliban

Thomas Ruttig •

Freitag, 36/2017 (8 September 2017) Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Trump strategy for Afghanistan and why it is so insufficient in lacking a clear policy on institution building, democratisation, rights and the country’s socio-economic problems (in German).

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Wahlkampf mit Afghanistan: Plant de Maizière neue Sammelabschiebungen?

Thomas Ruttig •

n-tv, 7 September 2017 Against the backdrop of new, planned German deportation flight with rejected Afghan asylum seekers, the private German TV station (on its website) refers to AAN’s Thomas Ruttig’s German blog Afghanistan Zhaghdablai with its regularly updated data on this and other Afghanistan-related issues: Der Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig hat auf seinem Blog die […]

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Afghan minors teaching Italian kids to fly kites, Trieste 2016 - photo by Fabrizio Foschini

Afghan Child Migrants: Italy, the preferred country of transit?

Fabrizio Foschini • Jelena Bjelica •

Over 100,000 unaccompanied Afghan minors, almost all of them male and generally between 14 and 17 years of age, applied for asylum in Europe between 2008 and 2016, making Afghanistan the single largest country of origin for this group of refugees. While Germany and Sweden received by far the highest number of applications, Italy became […]

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Taliban Carries Out ‘Revenge’ Attack on US-Afghan Airbase Over Leaflet

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Voice of America, 6 September 2017 A tweet of AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted in this article about US military spreading an anti-Taleban leaflet in Afghanistan that is seen as offensive to Muslims in general: Borhan Osman, a researcher at the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, noted that rage is building against the NATO-led Resolute Support, […]

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