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Thomas Ruttig

Die Schule der Muppets

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Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 July 2017 In an article (in German) reporting the introduction of a new character to the Afghan version of the Muppets Show, the Munich-based daily, one of the leading ones in Germany, also refers to shortcomings in the Afghan education system and AAN research about it.

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Taliban Say Top Leader’s Son Carried Out a Suicide Attack

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New York Times, 22 July 2017 This article on the claim of Taleban leader Hebatullah that his son has carried out a recent suicide attack on a police base in Helmand, driving a captured humvee, contains three links to the AAN website, mentions an article dated from May 2016 as a proof for plausibility of Hebatullah’s […]

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Defying Dostum: A new Jombesh and the struggle for leadership over Afghanistan’s Uzbeks

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After years of attempts at inner-party reform, dissidents of Jombesh, one of Afghanistan’s major political parties, have given up. They have left and created a new party; not very surprisingly it is called the “New Jombesh.” The recent departure to Turkey – officially for ‘medical treatment’ – by ‘old’ Jombesh leader (and First Vice President) […]

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حکومت افغانستان از محکمه‌ی بین‌المللی جزایی یک سال مهلت خواست

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Ettelaat-e Ruz, 12 July 2017 (25 Saratan 1396) The Kabul-based daily published an updated version of Ehsan Qaane’s AAN dispatch about the deliberations between the International Criminal Court and the Afghan government.

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A political solution to the Afghanistan crisis

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ODI/USIP, 10 July 2017 Watch this 47min video (or listen to the audio) of a panel with the head of AAN’s advisory board, Amb Francesc Vendrell, at an event in Washington DC co-hosted by ODI and the United States Institute of Peace to launch a new roadmap for political stability in Afghanistan. Other panelists: Said Tayeb Jawad (Ambassador […]

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Refugee deported hours before court suspends the order

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Daily Finland, 7 July 2017 “A teenage asylum seeker from Afghanistan was deported from Finland on Tuesday a few hours before the court suspended the deportation order (…). The Turku appeal court allowed the 19-year-old asylum seeker Zaki Hussaini to stay in Finland based on his work permit application, but the law enforcers had already made […]

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Afghanistan refers Anas Haqqani to International Criminal Court: AAN

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One TV, 6 July 2017 The Afghan TV’s website (mis)quotes AAN’s Ehsan Qaane saying that the Haqqani case was referred to the ICC – this was not what we reported, but rather that this case was among a number of cases on which the Afghan government shared information with the ICC. It did so in an attempt […]

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Trump’s ‘Maintenance’ Strategy Unlikely to Break Afghan Stalemate

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The Globe Post, 1 July 2017 This article in The Globe Post – a project run by exiled Turkish journalists – quotes, among others, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the US’ (so far, non-) strategy for Afghanistan: Thomas Ruttig, Co-Director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said the CIA and other U.S. special forces may pursue a […]

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Talibanit eivät luovuta [The Taleban don’t give up]

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Ulkopolitiikka 1/2017 (March) With some delay, for our Finnish-speaking readers: article portraying the Taleban 15 years after their regime in Afghanistan was overthrown – with quotes from AAN’s Borhan Osman and Thomas Ruttig and guest author Anand Gopal in the Finnish Journal “Foreign Affairs”.  

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Berlin, 5 July 2017: Book presentation with AAN

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“A Society of Intervention: An essay about about conflicts in Afghanistan and other military interventions” – this is the title of a new book by Michael Daxner, Professor of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, former advisor to the Afghan Minister of Higher Education and prolific author on Afghanistan. It will be presented at the Berlin office […]

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Afghanistan’s ‘hill of widows’ live in a world apart

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Daily Mail/AFP, 23 June 2017 A new story about the Zanabad, the ‘widows hill’ settlement in a Kabul outskirt, quoting an earlier AAN story by Naheed Esar, after the demise of the elder of the place, Bibikoh, in 2016: Bibikoh organised literacy classes, sewing workshops and food distributions with the support of an NGO, says […]

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Lost at Tora Bora (2005)

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New York Times, 11 September 2005 A useful re-read about the Tora Bora cave complex, “part of a C.I.A.-financed complex built for the mujahedeen,” with Osama bin Laden’s involvement. Featuring also Mawlawi Khales, Haji Abdul Qadir and Engineer Mahmud (both late) and a certain “Brig. Gen. James N. Mattis, the commander of some 4,000 marines.”

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