Month: December 2024

Tracking the Taliban’s (Mis)Treatment of Women

USIP, continuously updated Useful data base on Taleban limitations on women’s rights in education, travel, access etc.

31 Dec 2024

Kriege und Krisen prägten 2024 – was erwartet die Welt im neuen Jahr?

Augsburger Allgemeine, 27 December 2024 In this preview of the South German daily on possible crises in 2025, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on Afghanistan (in the original in German): The Taleban have ruled Kabul since the summer of 2021. Thomas Ruttig, an expert on the country, says in an interview with our editorial team […]

27 Dec 2024

The Khost Rebellion of 1924: The centenary of an overlooked but significant episode in Afghan history

Thomas Ruttig • David X Noack •

A hundred years ago, tribes led by local mullahs in the area around the town of Khost in southeastern Afghanistan rose up against King Amanullah and his modernisation programme. These events became known as the ‘Khost’ or ‘Mangal’ Rebellion, named after the region where it erupted and the Pashtun tribe that was first to revolt. […]

27 Dec 2024

Preserving Afghanistans [Musical] Soul: A Race Against Time

NewLines, 26 December 2024 The story of Omid J., an Afghan-American vinyl, TV and radio collector living in California and born there, grandson of a Pashto poet, who “has spent years gathering and sharing the sounds, memories and visuals that have defined his homeland” – music cassettes, wedding videos and much more. His “long-term goal […]

26 Dec 2024

Baerbocks Ministerium unter der Lupe: Neue Informationen zur Visa-Affäre

Frankfurter Rundschau, 24 December 2024 In an article about an alleged ‘visa affair’ in the German foreign ministry, in the context of evacuations from Afghanistan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted (from a second source) about the failure of the German government to fulfil its promises given to its Afghan employees: Thomas Ruttig told ZDF: ‘There […]

24 Dec 2024

Birds of a Feather, in Ideology: What is the relationship between the Islamic Emirate and Hamas?

Thomas Ruttig •

Before the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s continuing war in Gaza, the relationship of the Islamic Emirate towards Hamas could be described as cordial, but not actively supportive. AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (with input from Roxanna Shapour) wanted to look at whether this standpoint has changed since those attacks. By combing […]

23 Dec 2024

Taliban mark Assads fall with rallies, sweets, and solidarity messages

Afghan Witness, 20 December 2024 An overview over official and unofficial Taleban reactions, including on social media, on the victory of Syrian Islamist militia HTS. Apparently, the Taleban’s statement to Damascus marked the first state-level congratulation to the group.

20 Dec 2024

افزایش قیمت خرید وکرایه خانه درکابل [Increase in house purchase and rental prices in Kabul]

Azadi Radio, 26 Qaus 1403 (16 December 2024) Radio Azadi covered our report about the hike in house prices in Kabul and how this is pushing many of the city’s poorest residents into homelessness. The report was also republished on Reliefweb and the Afghan Peace Campaign, which we were pleased to note has been republishing our reports on its website.

16 Dec 2024

A Place to Call Home: What is driving up house prices in Kabul and pushing the poorest residents into homelessness? 

Sayed Asadullah Sadat • Kate Clark •

House prices and rents in the Afghan capital are on the rise again, according to estate agents and tenants. There was a sharp decline in both prices and rents when the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) took power in August 2021. Now, people who need to move are discovering just how difficult it is to […]

14 Dec 2024

How America Created the Enemy It Feared Most

New York Times, 12 December 2024 A story of mass blunder, reported by Azam Ahmed, a former Kabul bureau chief, who made repeated trips to the Waygal Valley after the withdrawal: How US troops went to Nuristan to fight an enemy that did not really exist there then. The United States dropped more than 1,000 […]

12 Dec 2024

An Afghan museum that buried its artifacts after Taliban takeover is reborn online

NPR, 10 December 2024 Ruchi Kumar reports about the Kabul-based Afghanistan Memory Home Museum that exhibited hundreds of items that belonged to Afghans who died in the many conflicts that have roiled the country – and closed down by its organisers, the NGO AHRDO, when the Taleban took power again in 2021. Not it has reopened […]

10 Dec 2024

 زوال غازی امان الله خان یا انقلاب ۱۹۲۸-۱۹۲۹ (The Fall of Ghazi Amanullah Khan or the revolution of 1928-1929)

Taand, 10 December 2024 Afghan poet, journalist and historian Abdul Bari Jehani reviews a hitherto unknown (to most) book by Indian immigrant Aziz Hindi, an eyewitness of the events around the fall of King Amanullah in 1929. The book was published in Multan in 1934 and seems to exist online.

10 Dec 2024