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Thomas Ruttig

Taliban fears over young recruits attracted to Isis in Afghanistan

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The Guardian, 7 May 2015 Reporting on Taleban fears about IS recruitment, this article refers (and links) to an AAN analysis on IS sightings.

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ISIL in Afghanistan? Not so fast

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al-Jazeera, 6 May 2015 This op-ed article that warns to draw hasty conclusions about an IS(IL) emergence in Afghanistan – as AAn does – also quotes/links to AAN’s related dispatch about the issue: “In September last year, for example, the alleged killing of scores of people – including beheadings – in Ghazni province by “Daesh […]

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Afghan trade union May Day demonstrators demand jobs. Photo: Pajhwok.

Two new external publications: The Afghan conflict, the Afghan civil society

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1 – An anthology of articles about the Afghan conflict (in German): „The Great Unrest: Afghanistan and its neighbours” is the title of an anthology of articles (all in German) that has been published today by Edition Le Monde diplomatique in cooperation with Berlin daily Tageszeitung (taz). It includes articles that have been published in […]

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Utrikesnotiser söndag

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Vestmanlands Läns Tidning, 3 May 2015 AAN’s Naheed Esar also made it into the Sunday’s international news review of this Swedish newspaper: Hoppas på rättvisa för Farkhunda 49 personer, bland dem 19 poliser, står anklagade för inblandning i det brutala mordet på Farkhunda, som lynchades utanför en moské i Kabul. När rättegången inleddes fick de […]

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Hoppas på rättvisa för Farkhunda

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Hufvudstadsbladet, 3 May 2015 The Finnish newspaper looks at the Farkhunda trial in Kabul and quotes AAN’s Naheed Esar: Det faktum att polis och andra högt uppsatta tjänstemän faktiskt förts till rätten tyder på ett visst mått av rättvisa och inte särskilt mycket korruption, enligt Naheed Esar som är analytiker och researcher på Afghanistan Analysts Network. Och […]

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ALP guarding a road in Imam Saheb (in an area now taken by Taleban) during 2014 operations. Photo: Bethany Matta.

ANSF Wrong-Footed: The Taleban offensive in Kunduz

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The Taleban’s first major onslaught in their ‘spring offensive’ this year took the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) by surprise. But after a few days, they were able to react and push the insurgents back in some areas while the latter held their ground in others. Although the ANSF kept control over Kunduz city and […]

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Appeal by Kunduz airstrike victims’ families fails

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Deutsche Welle, 30 April 2015 Also in German, here. Reporting that the next level of jurisdiction in Germany has rejected compensation claims of family members of Afghans killed during an air strike in Kunduz in September 2009, maintaining that the German commander responsible had not neglected duty (as, as the court says, he could not […]

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Phantom Troops, Taliban Fighting, and Wasted Money — It’s Springtime in Afghanistan

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Vice, 29 April 2015 Gary Owen, aka El Snarkistani, gives a nice written summary of the latest SIGAR reports, regarding the US (and Afghan) inability to say how many soldiers and policemen there exactly are – belonging to the many “failed attempts at reconstruction.” He asks “how many millions of dollars have been spent on troops […]

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Taliban Onslaught: What is Happening in Afghanistan?

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The Diplomat, 29 April 2015 The IS issue also comes up in today’s article debating the Taleban spring offensive: again, an AAN dispatch is quoted: “… the Afghan[istan] Analysts Network cautions that IS “has been prominent in Afghanistan largely on social media and in reports by the media and Afghan officials.”  

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Geklappt hat nur der Abzug: Taleban-Offensive und deutsche Fehler in Kundus

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Tageszeitung, 29 April 2015 Op-ed commentary by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, accompanying the Kunduz fighting article. He argues that Germany, at least indirectly, has contributed to the mistakes that have led to the Taleban’s latest advances: first by rejecting, over many years, that there was a war ongoing in Kunduz and Afghanistan which allowed the Taleban, […]

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Frühjahrsoffensive der Taliban: Kampf um Kundus

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Tageszeitung, 29 April 2015 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, summarising the Taleban attacks in Kabul (and fighting elsewhere) following their recent announcement of their spring offensive. He writes that the government forces were apparently taken by surprise – which surprises itself, as they should have been warned, nit only by the offensive’s announcement, but […]

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