Month: February 2020

The ‘Reduction in Violence’ Week: What did (some of the) people think?

AAN Team •

The ‘reduction in violence’ week between the US and Afghan militaries and the Taleban started after midnight on 22 February. It is to open the door for a US-Taleban deal on troop withdrawal and anti-terrorism guarantees to be signed on 29 February 2020 and, in the next step, for intra-Afghan peace negotiations. AAN researchers wanted to […]

28 Feb 2020

Weg frei für Frieden in Afghanistan?

SRF1, 27 February 2020 Listen to a news feature about the forthcoming signature of the US-Taleban agreement in Doha at the Swiss public broadcaster’s ‘Echo der Zeit’ show, with quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (starting at 4:24min).

27 Feb 2020

America and the Taliban prepare to sign a peace deal

The Economist, 27 February 2020 In an article about the ‘reduction of violence’ week in Afghanistan, AAN calculations about the ‘normal’ incident rate in February are quoted: According to the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a research group, a typical February in recent years has seen an average of 57 breaches of the peace every day.

27 Feb 2020

Machtkampf in Afghanistan: Regierung in Kabul ausgebremst

Tageszeitung, 26 February 2020 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig writes about US’s peace envoy Khalilzad’s successful attempt to avoid a domestic policy crisis in Afghanistan and salvage the US-Taleban after incumbent Ashraf Ghani was declared winner of the September 2019 presidential election and main rival Abdullah did not recognise the result, threatening to establish a parallel government […]

27 Feb 2020

A Welcome to the New AAN Website

AAN Team •

Dear AAN readers, welcome to our new website! In its two versions, in English, and in Dari and Pashto, it is the heart of our work. It is the means by which we make all our research and analysis freely available. This new website is a celebration of our ten-year anniversary as an independent, non-profit […]

26 Feb 2020

Kabul Chaos: Afghan Election Dispute Could Spill Over Into Peace Process

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 26 February 2020 AAN’s Ali Yawar Adili is quoted in this article about the Afghan post-presidential election crisis, with its disputed result: “Without a compromise, it would be difficult to break the current stalemate which might take a turn for the worst,” said Ali Adili, a researcher at the Afghanistan Analysts […]

26 Feb 2020

Kundus ist Taliban-Land: Islamistischer Einfluss in Afghanistan

Tageszeitung, 26 February 2020 While Germany has defend itself at the European Court of Human Rights, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig writes about the security situation in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, eleven years after a lethal German bomb drop that caused scores of civilian casualties and seven years after Germany pulled out its troops from there (in German): […]

26 Feb 2020

US-Taliban deal puts Pakistan in driver’s seat

Asia Times, 26 February 2020 AAN research about the Afghan presidential election and its outcome is quoted in this opinion piece from an Indian perspective.

26 Feb 2020

Disputed Casualties in Kushk: The cost of blurring lines between fighters and civilians

S Reza Kazemi •

The government continues to deny reports about the killing of at least five civilians in one or several airstrikes by Afghan or NATO forces in Kushk district in the north of Herat province on 17 February 2020. The following day, a group of Kushk residents staged a protest in front of the governor’s compound in […]

24 Feb 2020

Friede den Städten, Krieg den Dörfern?

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 February 2020 This analysis in the leading German conservative newspaper on the ‘reduction of violence’ week in and the envisaged peace talks for Afghanistan has some quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German, behind paywall): Thomas Ruttig von der Denkfabrik Afghanistan Analysts Network weist darauf hin, dass der Einwand von Kritikern, […]

22 Feb 2020

Afghanistan: une pause dans les combats en prélude à un accord avec les Etats-Unis

Libération, 22 February 2020 The French left-wing daily quotes AAN research by Thomas Ruttig on the imminent ‘reduction of violence’ week in Afghanistan: D’après le Réseau d’analystes afghans (AAN), il y a eu en moyenne 40 incidents par jour en février 2019. «C’est un nombre suffisamment important pour qu’une réduction des violences soit discernable, mesurable et fasse une différence pour […]

22 Feb 2020

Test in Afghanistan: “Signifikante Reduktion der Gewalt”

Telepolis, 22 February 2020 In its summary of analysis of the imminent ‘reduction of violence’ period in Afghanistan, the German news website links to AAN’s thematic dossier and Thomas Ruttig’s German-language blog, “Afghanistan Zhaghdablai.”

22 Feb 2020