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Thomas Ruttig

Speaking to an Afghan Disciple of the Caliphate

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The Diplomat, 28 July 2016 This very interesting article, including results of a face-to-face interview with an IS commander in Nangrahar province, has a short reference to AAN’s Borhan Osman writing about the situation in Achin district, one of the few IS’s remaining strongholds in the country.

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IS under press i Afghanistan

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TT/Göteborgs-Posten, 26 July 2016 The Swedish news agency quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the situation of IS in Afghanistan after the 23 July Kabul terror attack: – De har förlorat mycket av det territorium som de kontrollerat där, och det var inte mycket till att börja med. IS har pressats tillbaka av amerikanska drönar- och flygattacker, […]

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IS claims responsibility for Kabul terror attack

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ABC Australia, 25 July 2016 A few quotes of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this transcript of the Australian broadcaster’s “The full story” programme on the 23 July Kabul terror attack: (…) Thomas Ruttig from the Afghanistan Analysts Network says while Taliban attacks do kill civilians, it doesn’t usually target them. That’s because, he says, the […]

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Highest ever civilian casualties reflect evolution of conflict

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Radio France International, 25 July 2016 Quotes of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on UNAMA’s latest report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan on the website of France’s international radio: “After the breakdown of attempts to get peace talks with the Taliban going, the Afghan government has said we will switch to a military solution for the time […]

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Der IS schlägt in Afghanistan zu

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SRF, 24 July 2016 Listen to the audio (in German) on Swiss radio of a live interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about how strong the IS is in Afghanistan, as context to the heavy terror attack on 23 July in Kabul.

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IS-Anschlag in Afghanistan: Angriffsziel Zivilisten

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Tageszeitung, 25 July 2016 Summary of the facts about the IS-claimed terror attack on a Hazara protest demonstration in Kabul, by “Thomas Ruttig and Afghanistan Analysts Network, Kabul”. Among other things, Thomas writes that the IS in Afghanistan is actually weak, has suffered territorial losses and might therefore take recourse to terrorist attacks. The infrastructure, […]

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L’Isis contro la piazza: 81 morti a Kabul

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il manifesto, 24 July 2016 In context with the 23 July Kabul terror attack, Giuliano Battiston explains the background of the “enlightenment” protest movement and Afghanistan’s dependency on external sources for electrical power, quoting from an earlier AAN dispatch, for the left-wing Italian daily: Attraverso questi progetti, l’Afghanistan – tra i 5 paesi con il […]

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Blutiger Anschlag in Kabul: Der IS weitet sein Einsatzgebiet in Afghanistan aus

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 July 2016 The leading Swiss daily quotes AAN’s Obaid Ali on the IS’s strength in Afghanistan, saying that this is difficult to determine, that Islamist groups in other parts of the country [beyond Nangrahar] have declared their allegiance to IS but that this has more to do with distancing themselves from […]

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Taliban leader suggests softening stance on women’s rights

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Stars and Stripes, 22 July 2016 Reporting about a recent pledge by the Afghan Taleban’s new leader to give more rights to women living in areas under the group’s control, the daily newspaper quotes AAN’s Kate Clark: Kate Clark, a senior analysts with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, cautioned that conceptions of what constitute women’s rights “can […]

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Pakistan oder Afghanistan: Die schwierige Frage nach der Herkunft des Attentäters

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Die Welt, 21 July 2016 The conservative German daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the ongoing in enquiry in the country about the background, including the (Afghan or Pakistani) nationality and citizenship, of the train attacker from Würzburg who had registered himself as an Afghan when seeking asylum. Thomas says from the info available the […]

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