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Thomas Ruttig

Gefährliche Geständnisse Flüchtlinge Tausende Afghanen haben sich in Deutschland als Taliban offenbart – jetzt kommen die ersten vor Gericht.

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Spiegel, 17/2017 (22 April 2017) The leading German weekly news magazine reports about the “thousands of cases” (possibly an exaggerated number) of Afghan asylum seekers that claimed to have been Taleban fighters in order to avoid being deported back to their country, with the result of being investigated for their membership in a terrorist organisation, […]

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I vantan på nasta krig: På besok hos hezb-i-islami-i-afghanistans berg

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Blank Spot Project (Sweden), 16 April 2017 In this article by Franz Marty, reporting from Kunar about Hezb-e Islami, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on the general military relevance of the party after 2001 and on its relation, in eastern Afghanistan, with the Taleban: Enligt Thomas Ruttig, på Afghanistan Analysts Network, har endast vissa delar av Hezbi-i […]

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“Atta for President” Again? The struggle for the Afghan presidency and Jamiat’s leadership

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This year’s Nawruz, the Persian New Year on 21 March 2017, also heralded the beginning of the positioning for Afghanistan’s next presidential election, although due only in two years’ time. Atta Muhammad Nur, the powerful governor of Balkh province, used the popular holiday to announce that he will run in 2019. He kept open, however, […]

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Violence, corruption threaten Afghan progress in getting kids to school

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Reuters, 23 March 2017 In this report, following a Save The Children report on education shortcomings in Afghanistan, the authors also quote AAN’s Ali Yawar Adili who also has recently written about exaggerated schooling figures, ghost schools and other phenomena marring the country’s education system: Ali Yawar Adili at the Afghanistan Analysts Network said there was […]

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Donald Trump has three choices in Afghanistan: stalemate, failure, or sending in more troops

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ABC Australia, 21 March 2017 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here, as one of a number of analysts, on options for an Afghanistan policy under president Trump: Kate Clark, from the Afghan[istan] Analysts Network, says Afghanistan would fail if Mr Trump were to cut aid. “Clearly, if international funding — especially to the military but […]

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To Afghanistan Not Syria? Islamic State Diverts Tajik Fighters South

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Jamestown Foundation (Eurasia Daily Monitor), 15 March 2017 Looking at cases of Tajiks trying to enter Afghanistan, from Russia through Iran, in order to join Daesh, author Edward Lemon cites AAN as a source a few times – and directly relates to an AAN dispatch by Christian Bleuer (“To Syria, not Afghanistan: Central Asian jihadis […]

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AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on „How safe is Afghanistan (for deportations)?“

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Here are AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig’s next speaking appointments: four public events in four German cities (Mainz, Hamburg, Geesthacht near Hamburg, Berlin), all before the end of March, each time about the Afghan issue that dominates Germany’s domestic debate: whether the country is ‘safe’ enough that the German government (at the start of an election campaign […]

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Insiders aided Kabul hospital attack, survivors say

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AFP, 12 March 2017 This AFP story about the attack on Kabul’s military Sardar Daud Khan hospital, claimed by Daesh, picks up reports about inside support for the assailants – and on growing doubt that it was really the IS, namely on “indications that the (Taliban-allied) Haqqani network was behind it.”

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I Had Dinner With the Afghan Ambassador. What He Said About the Differences Between Trump, Obama Is Stunning

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Independent Journal Review, 11 March 2017 An American journalist was invited to a dinner with the Afghan ambassador in the US and widows of US soldiers killed in Afghanistan – and had the chance to listen to a eulogy of the Trump administration’s stand on Afghanistan and a dress-down of the “fatigued”, “hesitant” and too […]

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Afghan capital plagued by kidnapping and extortion of locals

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AFP/The National, 10 March 2017 Underreported, underrated – a phenomenon that undermines the security of Kabulis probably as much as terrorism. One shortcoming: the too short sentence about the political connections and protection of the abduction syndicates: The government’s inability to curb kidnappings has led many like Mr Ghulam to suspect that some criminals are […]

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Unheiliger Wettbewerb: Islamistische Anschläge in Afghanistan

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Tageszeitung, 8 March 2017 Op-ed summary in the Berlin based-daily by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig of the IS-claimed attack on the Kabul military hospital (in German).

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Afghanistan-Experte: Taliban bitten um Hilfe – Tür zum Dialog[?]

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Katholische Nachrichtenagentur, 6 March 2017 (not online) The news agency of the German catholic church quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Taleban’s invitation to NGOs and assurance to them of protection (in German): Kabul (KNA) Der deutsche Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig sieht eine wachsende Dialogbereitschaft der radikalislamischen Taliban mit internationalen Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs). Er bestätigte am Montag […]

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