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Thomas Ruttig

US and Afghanistan launch air strikes as Taliban attack western city

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AFP/The National, 15 May 2018 In this article about the latest Taleban overtake attempt of Farah, AAN is briefly quoted from earlier analysis: In 2017 insurgents tried three times to overrun the capital, according to the Afghanistan Analysts Network. Also in French in Le Point and La Croix.

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Ousted but not out: Afghan strongman [Atta] still calls the shots, residents say

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Washington Post, 13 May 2018 Article about out-but-not-out Balkh governor AAN, with quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on his struggle for the leadership of Jamiat-e Islami: As Thomas Ruttig of the independent Afghanistan Analysts Network put it, Noor “seems to be the single strongest leader, but other leaders combined together are stronger than him.”  

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Scheduled Elections In Afghanistan: What Prospects? – Analysis

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Eurasia Review, 11 May 2018 In this analysis of the upcoming Afghan elections, author  Pakistani Brigadier (Retd.) Dr. Ahsan ur Rahman Khan, quotes extensively from AAN reports – adding up to around half of his text: The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) is an independent non-profit policy research and analysis organization, registered as an association in Germany and Afghanistan, and is […]

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افغانستان د غوايه له کودتا ۴۰ کاله وروسته

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BBC Pashto, 9 May 2018 Watch and listen to Kate Clark – the only women among alleged war criminals on the programme – looking back at the ‘Saur revolution’ and the subsequent wars

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‘Desperate’ Taliban ‘has lost ground,’ Pentagon spokesperson wrongly claims

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Long War Journal, 7 May 2018 Do the US generals and government believe their own propaganda? The LWJ writes: The ignorance of US government officials on the situation in Afghanistan and the nature of our enemy continues to remain on full display. Over the past two weeks, senior US officials have scrambled to make uneducated […]

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[Ghazni:] When the Taliban Are at the Gates, a City Has One Choice: Pay Up

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New York Times, 7 May 2018 Reportage about a trip to Ghazni, “an Afghan city on the brink of falling to the Taliban” by the Times’ correspondent Jawad Sukhanyar, where “the Taliban infiltrate at will, shoot officials in broad daylight, and run a vast tax-collection system up to the gates of the governor’s compound.”  

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Afghanistan’s Paradoxical Political Party System: A new AAN report

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The role of political parties in Afghanistan’s highly centralised presidential system, with only limited parliamentary checks and balances, is an important yardstick by which to measure how the country has fared in its attempts to democratise in the post-Taleban era. This new AAN thematic report, in cooperation with the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), looks […]

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Inside and Outside the System: New AAN report on Afghanistan’s political parties published

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The role of political parties in Afghanistan’s highly centralised presidential system, with only limited parliamentary checks and balances, is an important yardstick by which to measure how the country has fared in its attempts to democratise in the post-Taleban era. This new AAN thematic report, in cooperation with the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), looks […]

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Journalists’ deaths can only thicken the fog of war over Afghanistan

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The Guardian, 5 May 2018 In former Kabul correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison’s appraisal of the work of the nine Afghan journalists slain by an IS-claimed suicide bomb attack, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted: “Isis don’t appear to have red lines when it comes to women, children, journalists,” said Kate Clark, who tracks civilian casualties at the […]

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[Khost] Entrepreneurs Bemoan Lack of State Support

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IWPR, 3 May 2018 Slain BBC reporter and IWPR contributor Ahmad Shah’s last piece for IWPR: Afghanistan every day – environmental problems and land issues around a planned industrial park in the southeast, originally published in January 2018.

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An April Day That Changed Afghanistan 4: The evolution of the PDPA and its relations with the Soviet Union

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After the leftists of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) seized power in the Saur Revolution of April 1978, the Soviet Union became Kabul’s key backer, to the extent of invading the country in 1979 to prevent local insurgencies and military rebellions toppling its new ally. AAN’s Thomas Ruttig here explores the relationship between […]

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