Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Thomas Ruttig

Why are Afghans refugees, and is Isis widespread there?

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dpa/The Local, 19 July 2016 This background material, quoting and linking to AAN on some of its aspects, has been distributed by the German news agency dpa in the context of the recent axe attack of a suspected Afghan refugee on a train in Germany.

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Afghanistan: Die verzweifelte Suche nach Zukunft

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Frankfurter Rundschau, 19 July 2016 Willi Germund, in the German daily, quotes both from the AAN/FES study and AAN’s Borhan Osman, on the situation and motives of Afghan refugees and on radicalisation among young Afghans: „In Afghanistan verlassen die Bewohner jeden Tag ihre Heimat. Manche bleiben woanders im Land, die meisten gehen nach Pakistan und […]

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Families Blame Each Other After Afghan Child Bride Burns to Death

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New York Times, 18 July 2016 Hair-raising account on a story of a recurrent theme: under-age marriages and domestic violence against Afghan women – a case from Ghor.

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Speaking of the South China Sea: International Law, Arbitrals, and Central Asia

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The Diplomat, 16 July 2016 The Asia/Pacific-focussed web magazine finds in its “Weekend Central Asia reads”: Christian Bleuer’s two dispatches (here and here) for the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network on the myth of Chechens fighting in Afghanistan are worth reading, as is Kate Clark’s recollection of searching for Chechens in 2000 in Afghanistan.

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External paper: “Taliban Views on a Future State”

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Few if any Taleban leaders say they want to re-establish the Islamic Emirate or revive the policies that drew the world’s opprobrium upon them when they controlled the Afghan state in the 1990s. That is the conclusion drawn in this report jointly written by Borhan Osman of the Afghanistan Analysts Network and Anand Gopal, author […]

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Keine Rede mehr von Abzug: Kommentar Afghanistan-Einsatz

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Tageszeitung, 11 July 2016 Here is Thomas Ruttig’s op-ed commentary on the NATO decision to extend Mission Resolute Support – without an end date (in German). His separate summary of the Warsaw NATO summit’s decisions only in the print version.

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Taliban’s New Leader, More Scholar Than Fighter, Is Slow to Impose Himself

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New York Times, 11 July 2016 The Times quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman in a portrait of new Taleban leader H(a)ibatullah Akhundzada: “Mawlawi Haibatullah’s area of influence is with the mullahs and the religious leaders, not the management and the commanders,” said Borhan Osman, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network who has written extensively about the Taliban. How […]

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Afghanistan: Nato’s længste og dyreste krig vil fortsætte efter 2020

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Politiken, 10 July 2016 Longer quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Danish daily, commenting on the NATO decision to extend its military mission in Afghanistan (without end date) and funding for Afghan forces to 2020. Not online. PDF link here (go to bottom half of page): 20160710Politiken-nato afghanistan-2

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Afghanistan’s refugees: still fighting for their homes and land

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Reuters, 1 July 2016 The news agency re-published, in a shortened version, Jelena Bjelica’s March 2016 AAN dispatch about land problems that Afghan returnees, mainly from Pakistan, are facing.

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Confusion, Fighting In Northern Afghanistan

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 20 June 2016 AAN’s Obaid Ali has participated in a radio round table organised by RFE/RL’s Central Asia programme Qishloq Avasi about the security situation in northern Afghanistan. A summary transcript and a link to the full podcast can be found here.

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Podium discussion: “Afghanistan – safe country of origin?”

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AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and  Bernd Mesovic, CEO of Germany’s largest pro-refugee organisation Pro Asyl, are on a podium tonight in the German city of Göttingen, discussing whether Afghanistan – as suggested by parts of the German government – is a “safe country of origin.” The event is part of a series on causes of the latest […]

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U.S. will seek billions more to support Afghan military efforts

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Washington Post, 18 June 2016 A primer for the upcoming NATO summit which also has Afghanistan and the future NATO involvement there on its agenda, with some interesting facts and statements. The United States and its allies, it reports, “will try to raise $15 billion to fund Afghan security forces through 2020. About $10.5 billion […]

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