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Thomas Ruttig

“Sichere Gebiete” in Afghanistan: Konter gegen de Maizière

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Telepolis, 12 January 2017 The German blog quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, from his German language blog Afghanistan Zhaghdablai, on the debate about so-called safe areas in Afghanistan – on which the UNHCR has now contradicted the German government: Das Papier widerspricht in einigen zentralen Punkten der Annahme von sicheren Zonen, wie dies in konzentrierter Form […]

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Guantanamo Bay turns 15: A look back at the notorious ‘torture camp’

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Russia Today, 11 January 2017 An article of the Russian state media outlet on the occasion of the Gitmo camp anniversary quotes from Kate Clark’s AAN study: A November 2016 study from Afghan [sic] Analysts Network found the US authorities committed “gross miscarriages of justice”against the victims, many of whom were detained on scant evidence. It […]

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Kabul’s Kart-e Sakhi shrine where two attackers wearing police uniforms and equipped with grenades and machine guns opened fire on Ashura mourners on 11 October 2016. Photo: Tolo

AAN at Public Seminar in Wiesbaden (Germany: 19 January 2017)

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„Afghanistan: A country between world policy, ethnic conflict and religious radicalism“ (Ein Land im Spannungsfeld von (Welt-)politik, ethnischen Konflikten und religiösem Radikalismus) AAN’s Thomas Ruttig will be one of the presenters at this evening of lectures and discussion (in German), organised by Hesse State Centre for Political Education (HSCPE). Other participants: Ambassador Dr. Gunter Mulack […]

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It’s time for Trump to explain what will happen in Afghanistan

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The Hill, 5 January 2017 This blog entry, still looking for a Trump Afghanistan policy, quotes, among others, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, with a statement originally in an article in The Atlantic: According to Thomas Ruttig, the co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, Washington is “is by far the largest spender on the Afghan armed forces and […]

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Afghan woman: sold like a goat, treated like a dog

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Daily Times, 3 January 2016 In an op-ed article in the Pakistani daily, the author quotes AAN research on cases of women rights abuses in Afghanistan (but mingled some facts): On 25 October 2015, Afghanistan Analyst Network in its paper reported 19 years old girl Miss Rukhshanda was stoned to death in Feroz Koh district […]

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Taliban ramp up attacks in southwestern Afghanistan as NATO casualties hit a low

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Stars and Stripes, 2 January 2017 Reporting a new Taleban offensive in two Helmand districts, the US-based daily quotes from earlier AAN research and quotes AAN’s Fazal Muzhary: The Afghanistan Analysts Network said in report last year that Afghan forces are struggling to fend off the insurgents because of a lack of coordination among army […]

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Afghanistan funds abusive militias as US military ‘ignores’ situation, officials say

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The Guardian, 26 December 2016 Sune Engel Rasmussen on commander Perim Qul’s militia in Rustaq in the northern province of Takhar, paid by the Afghan intelligence service and – indirectly – its donors, that include the CIA.

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How Peace Between Afghanistan and the Taliban Foundered [and Norway’s peace diplomacy]

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The New York Times, 26 December 2016 Mujib Mashal has located the Norwegian diplomat, a former missionary in Pakistan, who told him how he built relations of trust to Pakistani and Afghan clerics, among them Taleban, and opened up a channel for Norway’s peace diplomacy that attempted to bring about direct Kabul-Taleban talks and peace […]

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What Links Sarajevo to Kabul? Impressions from the western end of the Persianate world

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Sarajevo and Kabul lie over 4,000 kilometres apart. One feature that connects the two cities, however, is that both were destroyed during civil wars in the last decade of the twentieth century. Earlier this year, when AAN’s co-director Thomas Ruttig visited Sarajevo and other parts of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia during a vacation, he came across […]

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Die Bilanz des Kriegs in Afghanistan

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dpa/Badische Zeitung, 23 December 2016 The daily from southern Germany takes stock of the war in Afghanistan, based on material of the German news agency dpa which, in turn, quotes AAN (on IS activity in Afghanistan).

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Is Pakistan punishing refugees for Afghanistan’s friendship with India?

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IRIN, 23 December 2016 The news agency has put Jelena Bjelica’s AAN dispatch about the return of many Afghan refugees from Pakistan and its background(s) into its picks of the week: Pakistan has historically been a refuge for millions of Afghans who fled war over the past few decades. But the government pushed more than […]

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Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig spricht über die Situation in Afghanistan

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Radio Corax, 21 December 2016 Listen to a longer audio of a live interview of the non-commercial local radio station in the Eastern German city of Halle (Sachsen-Anhalt) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, discussing the first deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers from Germany by a charter flight and the situation in Afghanistan into which the non-voluntary […]

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