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Thomas Ruttig

AAN in Berlin (4 December 2017): The Afghanistan Rumour Kitchen

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rumours about_Afghanistan: is the name of a Berlin anti-deportation initiative, based on the title of a campaign the German Embassy launched last year via social media and large-format posters in Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif in order to persuade Afghans not to leave their country and come to Germany. Two days before Germany’s planned eight deportation […]

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Afghanistan mer osäkert: ”Allt fler civila dödas”

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Svenska Dagbladet, 2 December 2017 AAN is quoted on the records levels of civilian casualties in this article by the leading Swedish daily, but it is behind a pay wall. Och i juli rapporterade organisationen Afghanistan Analysts Network, AAN, att antalet civila offer ligger på ”rekordnivåer”…

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European return policies: No Safety in Numbers

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ECRE, 1 December 2017 This links to a policy note by ECRE (the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, a NGO umbrella organisation) analysing EU return policies and a Case Study on returns to Afghanistan identifying the risks, and the ethical, legal and political implications of a narrow focus on increasing the number of returns in general and […]

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Россию обвинили в тренировке афганских боевиков для Сирии Далее

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Рамблер (Rambler), 1 December 2017 The Russian news website quotes AAN on Afghan fighters in Syria: Независимая некоммерческая исследовательская организация Afghanistan Analysts Network обвинила Россию в подготовке спонсируемых Ираном шиитских боевиков в Сирии. Об этом говорится в докладе, опубликованном на  сайте организации. По утверждению Afghanistan Analysts Network, свидетельства того, что боевики из Афганистана и Пакистана тренируются в России, сами бойцы оставляют в соцсетях. (…) Это сообщение, как считают в Afghanistan […]

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ICC to Probe War Crime Cases in Afghanistan

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Tolo TV, 27 November 2017 Watch AAN’s Ehsan Qaane talking with Kabul-based Tolo TV’s Mehwar programme about the forthcoming investigations of war crimes in Afghanistan by the International Criminal Court, explaining background and technicalities: The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said that the international judicial body is preparing to officially investigate […]

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20 000 euro för en brud – i Afghanistan är vissa traditioner seglivade

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YLE Nyheter, 27 November 2017 AAN’s Fazal Muzhary in a conversation on Finnish public radio/TV’s Swedish language website about bride prices in Afghanistan, based on his earlier dispatch.

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Hezb-e Islami leader Hekmatyar is received in Kabul's presidential palace by President Ashraf Ghani and his predecessor Hamed Karzai in May 2017. Photo: Tolo

A Matter of Registration: Factional tensions in Hezb-e Islami

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Hezb-e Islami has run into a legal conflict over registration. This hampers efforts to re-unite the party’s various factions after the return of its ‘historical’ leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and in the run-up to the elections planned for 2018. It also reflects internal dynamics between a more pragmatic wing of Hezb-e Islami, which is participating in […]

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Un Hitler a l’Afganistan

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Ara.cat, 24 November 2017 The Catalan daily newspaper quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this portrait of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, saying that the presence of foreign troops in the country is one hurdle to the outbreak of a new factional war, feared by many in Afghanistan: “Els actors són els mateixos que als anys noranta. I, com […]

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Der Luftkrieg gegen die afghanische Opiumwirtschaft hat begonnen

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23 November 2017 AAN’s Jelena Bjelica quoted in this article by the leading Swiss daily about the US’ airstrikes against heroin labs in Afghanistan: Der drastische Anstieg der Opiumproduktion geht einher mit einer Ausweitung der von den Taliban kontrollierten Gebiete. Afghanistans Drogenwirtschaft mit den Aufständischen gleichzusetzen, wie es mitunter getan wird, sei […]

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(محکمه بین المللی جزایی و آغاز تحقیقات در افغانستان (چشم انداز بامدادی

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BBC Persian Radio, 22 November 2017 Listen to a radio interview with AAN’s Ehsan Qaane on the ICC’s decision to start war crimes investigations in Afghanistan after 2002 (starts at 12:45min in the programme).

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Afghan Local Police: The Controversial Force That Fills a Security Gap

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Voice of America, 20 November 2017 In a report about an ALP unit in Achin district, AAN research is quoted: An independent group of Kabul based researchers at Afghanistan Analysts Network reported, “Evidence of ALP being imposed on communities, of abusive behavior and of the capture of units by strongmen and tanzims [the old armed […]

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US, Afghanistan forces likely to face war crimes investigation, alongside Taliban

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Deutsche Welle, 20 November 2017 Quotes of what AAN colleague Ehsan Qaane has to say about the International Criminal Court’s decision to launch warcrimes investigations in Afghanistan: Ehsan Qaane, a legal and political affairs researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul, doesn’t want all the excitement over the US-CIA involvement to overshadow where the […]

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