Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Thomas Ruttig

The U.S. Presence and Afghanistan’s National Unity Government: Preserving and Broadening the Political Settlement

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NYU Center for International Cooperation, August 2016 A paper co-authored by ex-UNAMA Georgette Gagnon and Barnett R. Rubin, recapitulating political and constitutional developments leading to the establishment of the NUG and its falling into crisis. It also discusses amending the Afghan constitution, as a way out of the current crisis, looks back at proposals that […]

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US War Crimes or ‘Normalized Deviance’

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Middle East Online, 17 August 2016 In this article on the London-based website about “hypocritical standards that justify war crimes” in the “U.S. foreign policy establishment and its mainstream media”, the author refers to AAN publications by Kate Clark: Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network has documented that U.S. rules of engagement already permit routine targeting of […]

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Afganistán y Pakistán se desangran ante el empuje de la insurgencia

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El Correo and Sur, 14 August 2016 Quotes from AAN’s Lenny Linke and Thomas Ruttig in this article about Afghan-Pakistani relations in two Spanish newspapers. See the PDP files here: part 1: El Correo part 1 part 2: El Correo part 2

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Afghanistans Milizen-Problem unlösbar?

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Deutsche Welle, 12 August 2016 In this article about the ongoing role of militias in Afghanistan (in German), AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted: “[Warlords] spielen eine Schlüsselrolle im politischen Gesamtsystem, wie es nach 2001 errichtet wurde”, erläutert Thomas Ruttig, Co-Direktor des Afghanistan Analysts Network gegenüber der DW. “Abgesehen von ganz wenigen, niederrangigen Ausnahmen wurde niemand […]

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Afghans, the forgotten refugees

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Christian Science Monitor, 12 August 2016 This article about Afghan refugees stuck in Turkey briefly refers to the joint AAN-FES on decisionmaking in Afghan households about leaving for Europe.

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L’Afganistan es resisteix a l’EI

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ARA, 8 August 2016 The Catalan news website picked up information from Borhan Osman’s latest AAN dispatches about the IS: Borhan Osman, investigador de l’Afghanistan Analysts Network, explica en un informe recent que Daeix és capaç d’“exectuar operacions ocasionals” al país amb l’ajuda de “reclutes locals” i de causar nombroses baixes, però insisteix que tots […]

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Pity Aleppo as Putin drops his bombs to salvage Russia’s pride [lost in Afghanistan]

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The Guardian, 7 August 2016 An extremely interesting comparison between Russia’ military interventions in Afghanistan and today in Syria, and what both has to do with each other.

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USA’s dronedrab og ‘menneskejagt’ skaber samling og styrke

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Politiken, 7 August 2016 The Danish daily quotes from Borhan Osman’s dispatches about the latest developments within the Afghan Taleban: Allerede dengang advarede eksperter fra den anerkendte tænketank Afghan Analyst Network (AAN) mod overdreven optimisme, de pegede især på, at Mansoors efterfølge, mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada blev udpeget meget hurtigt og af et enigt Taleban. Under […]

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Sign of the Olympic rings at the sports ground near the Kabul National Stadium (Photo Source: Tolonews August 2016)

Two Sides of the Medal: Afghanistan at Olympia in Rio – and infighting at home

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Afghanistan’s Olympics team has marched, along with those of 206 countries and territories and an additional refuges team, into the Maracana Stadium for the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games (5-21 August 2016). Sprinter Kamia Yusufi carried the Afghan flag, but, in reality, this was the smallest Afghan team since the country […]

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Afghanistan Is in Chaos. Is That What Hamid Karzai Wants?

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New York Times, 5 August 2016 Mujib Mashal, one of Afghanistan’s outstanding journalists, with a new portrait of former President Hamed Karzai, after another controversial Karzai interview with the Guardian. “Critics say the former president is working from the wings to destabilize his successor’s government. He says he has no interest in returning to power.”

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Spreading tentacles of ISIS in South Asia

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Straits Times, 1 August 2016 Pakistani Dawn columnist Rana’s piece, reprinted in the Singaporean daily, quotes from AAN’s latest dispatches about IS in Afghanistan: Dispatches from Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent research group, indicate that while ISIS attempts to expand beyond Nangarhar have been unsuccessful thus far, attempts are ongoing. One dispatch mentioned that ‘ISIS […]

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Al-Hajj Delbar Nazari - Minister of Women’s Affairs of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Tired of the Estezah? Minister for Women’s Affairs survives vote of no confidence

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The Minister for Women’s Affairs, Delbar Nazari, has narrowly survived a vote of no confidence in parliament earlier this month. This is the latest in a long series of such motions against ministers that have become a means of carrying out political confrontations by proxy in parliament since a long time. MPs, however, seem to […]

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