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Thomas Ruttig

Anschlag in Afghanistan: Spannungen in Kabul

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Zeit, 5 June 2017 The German weekly, in its summary and analysis of last week’s  terrorist attacks and protests in Kabul, quotes the “renowned research institute, the Afghanistan Analysts network”: Das renommierte Rechercheinstitut Afghanistan Analysts Network warnt in einer Analyse, dass die Politisierung der Anschläge die ohnehin wackelige Einheitsregierung weiter spalten und lähmen könnte.

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Die Taliban lehnen weiterhin jegliche Friedensgespräche ab

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 3 June 2017 A quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this reportage from Laghman in Switzerland’s leading newspaper, on occasional cooperation between Taleban and Hezb-e Islami fighters in eastern Afghanistan in the past: Laut Thomas Ruttig, dem Co-Direktor des Afghanistan Analysts Network, haben auch nach 2001 Taliban und Hezb-e Islami im Osten […]

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Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan – „Das ist reine Symbolpolitik“

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Cicero (online), 2 June 2017 Interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig for the German magazine’s website after the 31 May 2017 terrorist attack in Kabul, looking at Germany’s moratorium on the deportation of rejected Afghan asylum seekers,  the security situation and the situation of the Afghan government forces and the role of German police training (“mainly […]

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Kabul citizens furious with government after bloody attack

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Radio France International, 1 June 2017 AAN’s Obaid Ali is quoted in this article saying: “People are shocked with what happened and disappointed,” says Obaid Ali, the Head of Office at the Afghanistan Analysts Network. “They are angry, afraid and worried about the future.”

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Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan: Ein “teilweise sicheres Herkunftsland”?

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SWR radio, 1 June 2017 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig deconstructs German MP Kiesewetter’s claims about 20 million Afghans in government-controlled areas ‘leading a normal live’ (see 40 years of war and recent Kabul attack) and of Afghan criminals being deported to Afghanistan, ending up there in jail and being safe(!) there (only that Afghan government is […]

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Afghanistan rivalries weigh on Trump’s troop decision

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Financial Times, 1 June 2017 In this article about Russia’s and Iran’s role in Afghanistan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on the former: “[The Russians] are just trying to throw a spanner in the works of whatever the US is doing there,” said Thomas Ruttig, a German former diplomat who heads the Afghanistan Analysts Network. […]

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Nach dem Anschlag in Kabul: Wie sicher ist Afghanistan?

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Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 31 May 2017 In its ‘review of the day’,  the German radio broadcast an extensive interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig taking stock of the context of the 31 May lorry bomb attack in Kabul. The Audio (in German) here.

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Afghanistan-Experte: Täglich Angriffe durch Rebellengruppen

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Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd), 31 May 2017 Print text of the German news agency, based on an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig who says that the Kabul lorry attack on 31 May 2017 was a “demonstration of power” by the insurgents to show the “inability of the Afghan security forces to protect the population”.  

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This evening: AAN in Potsdam (Germany) on Afghan migration

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“Protection for Afghan Refugees in Brandenburg? Perspektives, not deportation into war”. AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig speaks about the security situation in Afghanistan in the context of Germany’s deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers. Organised by the Brandenburg Refugees Council In German and Dari   where: Urania-Verein, Gutenbergstr. 71/72, Potsdam when: 30 May 2017, 7-9pm   More […]

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How Return of Half a Million Refugees is Impacting One Afghan Province

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News Deeply, 23 May 2017 The news service republishes a shorter version of Fazal Muzhary’s AAN dispatch about the problems the Afghan province of Nangrahar is facing after the (often involuntary) return of Afghan refugees from Pakistan – original title: “Resettling Nearly Half a Million Afghans in Nangrahar: The consequences of the mass return of […]

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