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Friedenskonferenz ohne Taliban

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SRF4, 27 March 2018 Listen to AAN’s Thomas Ruttig’s interview with Swiss radio’s rendez-vous show about today’s Afghanistan conference in Tashkent (in German): go to 27 March page and click audio under the headline mentioned above.

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Russia ‘arming the Afghan Taliban’, says US

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BBC, 23 March 2018 AAN’s Kate Clark induces some doubts in the logic behind US allegations of a close Russia-Taleban collaboration: The Taliban’s enmity towards Russia was enduring, says Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network: “The Taliban always castigated the Northern Alliance for dealing with Russia,” she says. It may be that now Russian […]

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Doubts Cast on US Claims of Hitting Anti-China Militants in Afghanistan

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Voice of America, 19 March 2018 The US radio station has summarised AAN’s guest dispatch on US airstrikes against what it claimed were targets linked with Uyghur militants – and has asked the US military for a response: When contacted by VOA for his reaction to AAN’s report, U.S. military spokesman Captain Tom Gresback in […]

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Faryab provins i hendene på Taliban

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Klassekampen, 19 March 2018 In a package about the current situation in Afghanistan, the Norwegian leftwing daily spoke to AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (about the situation in Faryab province, where formerly a Norwegian PRT was based) and the recent peace proposals with Prof Barnett Rubin (behind a pay wall).

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Afghanistan: Verhandeln mit den Taliban?

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ARD, 17 March 2018 This article on the website of Germany’s leading news programme, Tagesschau, quotes “renowned Afghanistan Analysts Network” as saying that president Ghani’s peace proposal is qualitatively more far reaching than any earlier peace initiative and that it was likely that the Taliban are contemplating it.

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A Bold Afghan Peace Offer, but are the Taliban Interested?

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AP/Military Times, 14 March 2018 In this article by Kathy Gannon on the forthcoming Ulema conference in Indonesia and recent peace initiatives, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted: Thomas Ruttig, co-founder of the independent Afghanistan Analysts Network, called Ghani’s offer “a good beginning, not more, not less.” “Most elements of the proposal have been brought up […]

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Afghan AF Getting New Hellfire-Shooting Planes; More Airstrikes Coming

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Breaking Defence, 13 March 2018 In this article looking on the increased number of US airstrikes in Afghanistan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on possible adverse effects: Thomas Ruttig, co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said he is particularly concerned about the impact the coming wave of airstrikes will have on civilians. “We have seen […]

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«Norsk» provins kan bli overtatt av Taliban

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Bistandsaktuelt, 13 March 2018 The Norwegian website picks up AAN’s latest analysis of the upsurge in fighting in Faryab province where Norwegian troops have been deployed for many years under ISAF and summarises it, with a commentary of PRIO’s Kristian Harpviken: Dette er noen av hovedpunktene i en fersk rapport  skrevet av Thomas Ruttig og […]

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Afghanistan: Kampf um Faryab

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Augen geradeaus! 12 March 2018 The German security policy blog run by Thomas Wiegold refers to AAN’s latest analysis of the military situation in the northern Afghan province and adds an interesting detail: that German soldiers are currently evaluating the effectiveness of the Afghan forces there.

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Afghanistans præsident rækker hånden frem til talibanerne

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Jyllands-Posten, 11 March 2018 The leading Danish newspaper reports about the latest Afghan peace overtures to the Taleban and extensively quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (behind a paywall): Og ifølge afghanistan- eksperten Thomas Ruttig fra Afghan Analyst Network [sic] i Berlin er der tale om »det mest vidtgående fredstilbud siden 2001«. »De este af elementerne i […]

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Afghanistan’s forgotten ‘gypsies’ seek legal recognition

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AFP, 8 March 2018 A very interesting article about one of Afghanistan’s most underreported minorities, the Jogi. Most of the group of 20,000 to 30,000 who are Sunni Muslims live in northern Afghanistan, many near Mazar-e Sharif. But Afghanistan’s constitution does not explicitly recognise them as Afghans, making it difficult for them to obtain a tazkira. In 2006, the […]

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One of the refugee families who returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan in 2017. Last year, some 57,000 people returned. This year, a far bigger, forced exodus is feared. Photo: Andrew Quilty, 2017, Nangrahar.

AAN at 6 March 2018 Vienna event: “Afghanistan in Pakistan”

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Pakistan has hosted millions of Afghan refugees over decades. 2016 it began, however, to push them out in masses. The deported Afghans return into a country with a  catastrophic security situation.  Their situation will be discussed on a podium which includes AA’s Jelena Bjelica.   Time and location Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 19:00 – 21:00 […]

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