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Thomas Ruttig

ترامپ در مورد افغانستان چه سیاستی در پیش می‌گیرد؟

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BBC (Persian service), 18 November 2016 Quotes from Thomas Ruttig and Kate Clark’s AAN dispatch thinking about the possibly Afghanistan policy of US president-elect Donald Trump in this analysis: توماس روتیگ و کیت کلارک، پژوهشگران شبکه تحلیلگران افغانستان در تحلیلی در مورد این اظهار نظرهای آقای ترامپ نوشته‌اند: “رئیس جمهوری منتخب و تیم او در […]

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The new battle over the longest war: What can Afghans expect from the new US president?

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The Friday Times, 18 November 2016 The liberal Pakistani weekly published a shortened version of Thomas Ruttig and Kate Clark’s AAN dispatch about how new US President Trump’s Afghanistan policy could be expected t look like.

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Isis in Afghanistan: ‘Their peak is over, but they are not finished’

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The Guardian, 17 November 2016 AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted here on IS’ strength in Afghanistan: Borhan Osman, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said that although Isis had lost half its initial territory in Nangarhar, it seemed to have dug in firmly in its four districts. “They have proved to be irremovable from these areas,” […]

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Machtkampf im Kabinett: Afghanistans ewige Baustelle

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 16 November 2016 The most important Swiss daily extensively quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig – directly and indirectly – in its article about the seven ministers sacked by Afghan parliament, and on the continuing political crisis (in German). The headline: “Power struggle in cabinet: the for-ever construction site.”

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Podcast: Can Trump Solve The Afghanistan, Pakistan Impasse?

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RFE/RL Gandhara blog, 16 November 2016 Listen to or download this podcast about the new US administration’s possible approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan, with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, Woodrow Wilson School’s Michael Kugelmann, Gandhara’s Abu Bakr Siddique and host Muhammad Taher.

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Bürgerkrieg in Afghanistan: Wer ist der Stärkste im ganzen Land?

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Tageszeitung, 15 November 2016 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin-based daily, looking at the latest Taleban attacks (on Bagram air base and the German consulate in Mazar) and its implications (in German).

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In October, over 3,000 Afghans killed and wounded

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Pajhwok, 14 November 2016 Kabul-based news agency Pajhwok – that has started to regularly report its own war casualty figures from Afghanistan – has published the October 2016 figures: “As many as 3,285 people have been killed and wounded in 193 attacks across Afghanistan last month, showing a 35 percent increase in assaults and 83 […]

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Afghanistan: Die Rückkehr des Taliban-Albtraums

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Telepolis (blog), 12 November 2016 This entry into one of the most active German political blogs refers to the “longer, but well readable and comprehensible analysis by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and Kate Clark”: Die Frage ist nun, wie die Nato und vor allem die USA auf die Ausbreitung der Taliban reagieren sollen. Der frisch gewählte […]

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“Die Situation verschlechtert sich”: Was die Anschläge in Afghanistan für das Land bedeuten

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dpa/Huffington Post (Germany), 12 November 2016 The German press agency quotes from AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig’s interview with Deutsche Welle, in an analysis of the recent Taleban attacks in Bagram and Mazar-e Sharif: Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig sagte nun der „Deutschen Welle“: “Die Situation verschlechtert sich. Es gibt nicht wirklich Gebiete, die sicher sind; sie sind vielleicht eine […]

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Deutsche nun in vorderster Schusslinie der Taliban?

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dpa/Stern and others, 11 November 2016 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted by the German news agency on the Taleban’s shifting views on Germany and its role as an member of the military alliance in Afghanistan. Also on (German TV) ZDF Heute homepage, Die Zeit, Bonner Generalanzeiger, Mittelhessen.de, In Südthüringen.de, Lippische Landes-Zeitung, Schweriner Volkszeitung, Trierischer Volksfreund and others.

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The NUG, brought to light by 'midwife' John Kerry in 2014, will be part of Obama's Afghan legacy for President Donald Trump. Photo c/o US Embassy Kabul

“People That Hate Us”: What can Afghans expect from President Trump?

Kate Clark • Thomas Ruttig •

If Hillary Clinton had won Tuesday’s race for the White House, the world would now have a good sense of who her top officials would be and what her foreign policy would look like. With a Secretary of State-turned-president, Afghanistan could have expected business to carry on pretty much as normal. With Donald Trump coming […]

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Afghanistan – There are no safe zones [after the German consulate attack in Mazar]

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Deutsche Welle, 11 November 2016 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the motives behind the Taleban attack on the the German general consulate in Mazar-e Sharif, on the general security situation and causes of Afghan refugee movements. Also in German, Spanish, Russian and other languages.

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