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Thomas Ruttig

Mer kunskap krävs om ensamkommande unga

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Dagens Samhälle, 13 October 2017 The Swedish newspaper, in an extensive article on its website, quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the place of Hazaras in the current Afghan state and the character of still existent discrimination: Thomas Ruttig från den respekterade Afghanistanbaserade tankesmedjan Afghan Analyst Network [sic] menar till exempel att hazarerna har en stor […]

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Afghanistan: Mehr Luftangriffe und mehr Soldaten für den Versöhnungsprozess

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Telepolis, 5 October 2017 The German political blog quotes from Thomas Ruttig’s German blog Afghanistan Zhaghdablai and AAN’s guest dispatch by Franz J. Marty, about the Afghan special forces, in an article about the new US strategy for Afghanistan, summarised, ironically, as “more air strikes and more soldiers for the reconciliation process.”

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ISIS attacks Shiites, but Afghans resist push to make conflict religious

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Christian Science Monitor, 5 October 2017 In this article about latest sectarian IS terror attacks in Afghanistan, AAN, from recent dispatches, and Obaid Ali are  quoted several times: Shiite mosques have been targeted at least seven times since mid-2016, with five such attacks this year, according to a tabulation by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN). Among other non-mosque […]

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Afghan Gov’t Hastily Moves to Arm Shiite Civilians, Prompting Concerns

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The Globe Post, 30 September 2017 The website compiled quotes from experts and politicians about the recent anti-Shia sectarian terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, among them from Thomas Ruttig’s recent AAN dispatch: Thomas Ruttig, co-director and co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said that by approving the Shia community’s demand for arms, the government is simply […]

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Nancy Dupree, la gardienne de la culture afghane, est morte

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Sciences et Avenir, 22 September 2017 The journal, in the Asia Press Review on its website, links to AAN’s obituary for Nancy Dupree (although incorrectly identifying us as a ‘German NGO’ – well, one of our office addresses is in Berlin).

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The Gardeners of Kabul

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BBC, 22 September 2017 This time recommended watching: a lovely BBC documentary by our friend Lalage Snow about the gardeners of Kabul. Watch on Youtube. Please also read the author’s piece on the same topic for AAN, here.

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The U.S.-Trained Warlords Committing Atrocities in Afghanistan

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In These Times (Oct. issue), 20 September 2017 Already online: This feature by May Jeong on Uruzgan (US-sponsored) militia chief Shojayi and his killings of Pashtun villagers, the “Khataba massacre”, with some AAN quote on him (by Martine van Bijlert): The Afghanistan Analysts Network reported that Shujayi spent 2013 traveling frequently to eastern Uruzgan to […]

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Afghanistan considers plan to arm 20,000 civilians to fight Taliban and ISIL

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AFP/The National, 17 September 2017 AAN’s Kate Clark comments on plans to establish a new paramilitary set-up in Afghanistan, a so-called Afghan Territorial Army: But critics fear that rather than support Afghanistan’s beleaguered security forces, a government-armed militia could aggravate factionalism and push Afghanistan deeper into conflict. “It’s a tool that the US military and […]

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Ein Land erodiert: Wie Afghanistan in Machtkämpfen versinkt

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Frankfurter Allgemeine, 15 September 2017 In this reportage about new factional conflicts in northern Afghanistan, from Mazar-e Sharif and Sherberghan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is briefly quoted about the re-emerging Hezb-e Islami presence in the area: So etwa Juma Khan Hamdard, einem Gegenspieler Attas im Norden, dessen Anhänger nun „spürbar die Vorherrschaft des Gouverneurs herausfordern“, wie […]

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Dans les campagnes, la vie sous les talibans

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La Croix, 14 September 2017 The French daily quotes Alex Strick van Linschoten from his AAN report on the ideology of the Taleban: « L’idéologie talibane s’est transformée ces deux dernières décennies, note le chercheur Alex Strick van Linschoten dans un rapport du think tank Afghanistan Analysts Network. Leur vision du monde n’est pas moins conservative ou […]

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Afghanistan: Abschiebung ins Kriegschaos

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Frankfurter Rundschau, 12 September 2017 After Germany’s latest deportation charter flight, this article quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the disputable official German government assessment of the Afghan security situation: Günter Burkhardt, Geschäftsführer von Pro Asyl sagte der FR noch vor dem Abflug: „Die Situation in Afghanistan eskaliert und ist unkalkulierbar. Die jetzige Abschiebung ist rein […]

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U.S. Historian Nancy Dupree Dies, Aged 89

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AFP/Newsweek Pakistan and Express Tribune, 11 September 2017 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in this obituary for renowned Afghanistan scholar Nancy Dupree: “She was passionate about education and sharing knowledge and making sure Afghans had access to the records of their own history,” said Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. Express Tribune article here.

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