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AAN’s Martine van Bijlert and Jelena Bjelica discuss their research work on migration. Episode: 3 – June, 2017

AAN’s Martine van Bijlert and Jelena Bjelica in conversation with Roxanna Shapour on their research on Afghan migrants.

21 Jun 2017 Jelena Bjelica • Podcasts

The Aftermath of an Exodus: Afghans stuck in Serbia still trying to ‘hit the game’

For more than six months, the dilapidated barracks behind Belgrade’s main bus station housed over a thousand men and boys – most of them Afghans. Conditions, despite better weather and increased assistance, remained dire and the migrants continued to live under the looming threat of eviction. In May 2017, the authorities finally moved in, vacated […]

14 Jun 2017 Martine van Bijlert • Jelena Bjelica • Migration

The Aftermath of an Exodus: The Balkans’ old smuggling routes and Europe’s closed borders

With some borders shared with EU countries that are trying to keep migrants and asylum seekers out, Serbia finds itself increasingly home to people who want to travel onwards but are unable to do so. An estimated eight to ten thousand migrants – most of them Afghans – who intended to travel on to Western […]

14 Jun 2017 Martine van Bijlert • Jelena Bjelica • Migration

AAN’s Martine van Bijlert and Jelena Bjelica discuss their research work on migration. Episode: 2 – June, 2017

AAN’s Martine van Bijlert and Jelena Bjelica in conversation with Roxanna Shapour on their research on Afghan migrants.

9 Jun 2017 Jelena Bjelica • Podcasts

Reforming the Afghan Ministry of Interior: A way to ‘tilt’ the war?

As part of their review of military strategy in Afghanistan, both President Ashraf Ghani and the Commander of United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, have honed in on the Ministry of Interior as a critical weakness in the government’s fight against the Taleban. The Afghan National Police, a paramilitary force, is […]

9 Jun 2017 Kate Clark • War and Peace

A Black Week in Kabul (2): Who are the most likely perpetrators?

On 31 May and 3 June 2017, Kabul was the scene of a series of new terrorist bomb attacks that took a heavy toll on the civilian population. While no group has claimed the attacks, the Afghan government has pointed at the Haqqani network, which is part of the Taleban. All this leaves room for […]

7 Jun 2017 Borhan Osman • War and Peace

A Black Week in Kabul: Terror and protests

It has been an incredibly difficult week for Kabul. In four days, over a hundred people were killed and several hundreds injured – most of them in a massive terrorist attack in central Kabul on 31 May 2017. Two days later, as angry protests threatened to become violent, the police opened fire killing and injuring […]

4 Jun 2017 Martine van Bijlert • Thomas Ruttig • War and Peace

This evening: AAN in Potsdam (Germany) on Afghan migration

“Protection for Afghan Refugees in Brandenburg? Perspektives, not deportation into war”. AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig speaks about the security situation in Afghanistan in the context of Germany’s deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers. Organised by the Brandenburg Refugees Council In German and Dari   where: Urania-Verein, Gutenbergstr. 71/72, Potsdam when: 30 May 2017, 7-9pm   More […]

30 May 2017 Thomas Ruttig • Events

Afghanistan’s Foreign Security Detainees: How many are there and what to do with them?

Afghanistan remains an attractive place for international jihadists to come and fight, despite the competing appeal of Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. Since the post-2001 insurgency broke out, foreign fighters have come from Pakistan, Central Asia and the Arab world, some bringing their families. An unknown number have ended up in Afghan detention. More information about […]

30 May 2017 Kate Clark • Rights and Freedoms

Looking at the ‘Nicholson plan’: A bid to tilt the Afghan war in the government’s favour

The United States is reviewing its military strategy towards Afghanistan, as part of an overall strategic review. Nothing is certain until President Trump makes a final decision, but proposals, drawn up with the Afghan government, are circulating. We already know what the commander of US and international forces in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, would like […]

24 May 2017 Kate Clark • International Engagement