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Thomas Ruttig

This is Afghanistan, 15 years since the beginning of the US-led military intervention

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East Online, 2 February 2017 A combined interview on the website of Italy-based geopolitical EastWest magazine – based on the same questions asked and answered by email – with Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, Ahmed Rashid, among the most important and well-known scholar of the Taliban movement, and Daoud Khattak, journalist of Radio […]

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The art of the deal in Afghanistan

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New York Times, 1 February 2017 Very good analysis and a couple of tough questions by Barnett Rubin on the complex issues that the new US administration will face when dealing with Afghanistan, for example: sending more troops and putting stronger pressure on Pakistan – “there is no base for believing that either of these measures […]

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Amid Kabul winter, Afghan war refugees shiver in frigid informal settlements

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Washington Post and Stars and Stripes, 1 February 2017 Pamela Constable, reporting the dire situation of Afghan IDPs and the “major disappointment for returned Afghans […] the government’s failure to follow through on its promise to provide each family with a piece of land on which to build a new life”, she briefly quotes from […]

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Radio wars: Islamic State takes over the Afghan airwaves

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IRIN, 31 January 2017 In this article about the IS radio station in Afghanistan, the author quotes from a dispatch by AAN’s Borhan Osman: IS “has put far greater effort into its media activities than would normally be expected from a nascent group of its size”, said the Afghanistan Analysts Network in a reportlast month that […]

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Bayern bei Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan besonders gnadenlos: »Einige entziehen willkürlich die Arbeitserlaubnis«

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junge Welt, 28 January 2017 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this interview by the German leftwing daily with the head of the Bavarian Refugee Council (in Germany) about the local government withdrawing work permits from Afghan asylum seekers: Von Experten wie Thomas Ruttig, Direktor des Afghanistan Analysts Networks, wissen wir, dass es für viele […]

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Around the World in Trump Tweets: Afghanistan

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RFE/RL, 26 January 2017 The Gandhara blog of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has done good research: all (at least many) past tweets by the new US president by country. Click Afghanistan.

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Islamic State’s Khorasan Province, 2 Years on

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The Diplomat, 26 January 2017 AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted here in a longer part: As Borhan Osman, of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, points out, “while ISKP’s influence on the battlefield seems to be waning — at least for now — its ideological potential does not seem to be in a concordant state of decline.” […]

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Abgeschoben, aus dem Blick verloren

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Tageszeitung, 26 January 2017 This article looking at which support is given to rejected and deported Afghan asylum seekers arriving back in Afghanistan has a short quote with an observation reported to AAN from Kabul airport: “They simply walk to the taxi stand.”  

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Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan: „Das muss sofort aufhören!“

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Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Berliner Zeitung und Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 24. January 2017 The three newspapers carry an identical article, reporting the latest German deportation flight with rejected Afghan asylum seekers back to Afghanistan and the widespread criticism of it. It also quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig as saying that the deportation was “improper” as Afghanistan was not a […]

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Der UNHCR-Bericht zu Afghanistan: Nächste allgemeine Verunsicherung

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Al-Sharq, 18 January 2017 The Berlin-based Middle East-focussed blog reprints a blog entry from AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig’s German language blog, Afghanistan Zhaghdablai, and where he, in turn, quotes from an AAN dispatch by Reza Kazemi about Herat: Zu Herat: Dort wird in einigen, auch sehr stadtnahen Distrikten durchaus gekämpft, und zwar zunehmend. Im letzten Afghan […]

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Thomas Ruttig über abgeschobene afghanische Flüchtlinge

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SRF 4 and 1, 13 January 2017, An extensive (25 min) interview on SWiss radio (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about Germany’s ‘return’ of rejected Afghan asylum seekers and the dispute in the country, between parts of the federal government and almost everyone else about whether Afghanistan is “safe enough” or not to deport […]

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Did ISIL, the Taliban or the Haqqani Network carry out the Kandahar attack?

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The National, 12 January 2017 The UAE-based daily ponders who might be behind the bomb attack in the Kandahar governors house that also killed five Emarati citzens and quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: “Whoever did it has shot themselves in the foot and will not have made themselves popular with the rest of the country,” says […]

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