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Guest Blog: Author’s Reply to AAN Reading ‘Afgantsy’

It is usually a mistake for an author to come back to a reviewer, but you raise a number of interesting and useful points, which made me think it would be worth breaking the rule, wrote Rodric Braithwaite*, author of ‘Afgantsy’ which primarily looks at the impact of the Afghan war on Soviet people. Here […]

5 Jul 2011 Rodric Braithwaite • War and Peace

4 July AAN New Report: Layha: Calling the Taleban to Account

The new report by Kate Clark, AAN Senior Analyst, discusses the Taleban Code of Conduct of the Layha. In the report, Clark uses the Layha as a means of analysing the Taleban itself and the movements changing concerns, but she also asks whether the Layha could be approached in much more practical terms, as a […]

4 Jul 2011 AAN • admin • Events

Taleban Code of Conduct or the Layha

For English translations of the 2010, 2009 and 2006 Codes of Conduct, click here and to see the original Pashto texts, click here.

4 Jul 2011 Taleban and related documents

The Layha: Calling the Taleban to Account

This latest report by Kate Clark, Senior Analyst with the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), discusses the Taleban Code of Conduct or the Layha. The latest Layha was issued a year ago, and the two previous in 2006 and 2009. Each new version of the Code has been longer, more detailed and more polished. The Layha […]

4 Jul 2011 Kate Clark • Special Reports

Talking about Civilian Casualties in Kabul (with comment)

Last week, on 28 June, ISAF Kabul had invited for a half-day conference on the issue of civilian casualties. The attendance, at least during the first hour, was high-ranking, with Gen. David Petraeus, NATO SCR Simon Gass, NSC chairman Rangin Dadfar Spanta and deputy speakers of both houses of the Afghan parliament. They all left […]

3 Jul 2011 Thomas Ruttig • War and Peace

Guest Blog: Reconciliation Reloaded in Khost

Once there was the Strengthening Peace programme, with it provincial branches, like here in Khost, to ‘reintegrate’ willing insurgent fighters. It failed because of corruption and a lack of political support. Now, there is its successor programme APRP, and it is unclear whether that’s just a new name on the same project. Our guest blogger […]

2 Jul 2011 Emilie Jelinek • War and Peace

Guest Blog: Who is Tayyeb Agha? (amended)

After years of rumors of talks with the Taleban, the US is finally meeting a senior Taleban representative face-to-face. In a series of encounters this spring in Germany and Doha, it has been leaked to the press that US officials have met with Tayyeb Agha, a leading Taleban figure. But the world of the Taleban […]

1 Jul 2011 Anand Gopal • War and Peace

Parliamentary Crisis: The Supreme Court Steps In

The resistance of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to implement the Special Electoral Court’s decision to replace 62 MPs due to alleged fraud, and the Supreme Court’s ruling that all decisions of the Wolesi Jirga are illegal until the 62 ‘new’ MPs take their place in parliament, have pushed this new institutional crisis to the […]

30 Jun 2011 Gran Hewad • Political Landscape

Pour une sortie de la crise en Afghanistan: Deux facteurs-clefs a l’approche de 2014: réconciliation at economie politique (not online)

Thomas Ruttig, Martine van Bijlert and Mathieu Lefevre. In: Annuaire Francais de Relations Internationales 2011 (vol. XII), pp. 809-27

30 Jun 2011 Thomas Ruttig • Martine van Bijlert • Mathieu Lefevre • External publications

28 June 2011: AAN’s Kate Clark at Chatham House

AAN’s Kate Clark, author of the report ‘The Takhar attack: Targeted killings and the parallel worlds of US intelligence and Afghanistan’, will take part in another discussion on the issue of the US Kill/Capture strategy at the Chatham House in London. In July 2010 when General David Petraeus took command of NATO’s campaign against the […]

28 Jun 2011 AAN • admin • Events