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Thomas Ruttig

A sea of green cards of approval in the Wolesi Jirga. Photo: ToloNews

Wolesi Jirga Resolutely in Favour of NATO Support: BSA and SOFA take next hurdle

Thomas Ruttig • Wazhma Samandary •

The Wolesi Jirga today (23 November 2014) approved the long-delayed bilateral security agreement (BSA) with the United States and the Status of Force Agreement (SOFA) with NATO. Although the Afghan Senate’s approval is still pending, this vote opens the door for the start of the ISAF-successor Mission Resolute Support. AAN senior analyst Thomas Ruttig and […]

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2015 Afghanistan Humanitarian Needs Overview

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UNOCHA,/Relief Web, 23 November 2014 UNOCHA lists Afghanistan’s key humanitarian issues: Conflict causes death, injury and displacement 7,965 civilians killed and injured by conflict January-September 2014, 22 per cent of which were children. 105,800 people fled their homes, in the same period, amidst increased fighting in Northern Hilmand and other provinces. 1.2 million children acutely […]

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Hour’s Drive Outside Kabul [in Tagab], Taliban Reign

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New York Times, 22 November 2014 In this striking reportage about the situation in the district of Kapisa province, author Azam Ahmed writes that “it is the government that operates in the shadows, following the dictates of the Taliban in order to stay alive. Afghan soldiers in Tagab district will not leave their base except […]

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USA utvider sin rolle i Afghanistan

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NRK, 22 November 2014 An article on the website of Norwegian TV refers to an AAN dispatch on the situation Helmand, however calling us Afghan Analysts Network and AAA: Den uavhengige organisasjonen Afghan Analysts Network (AAA) tegnet tidligere i høst et dystert bilde av utviklingen i Helmand og dokumenterte hvordan amerikanske styrker bidro til at […]

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Talking to the Taliban, again

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IRIN, 20 November 2014 In an article about NGOs and humanitarian organisations that are in contact with the Taleban to safeguard their activities, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted twice. First, he pointed out that even then the Taliban might have drawn a distinction in their wording between “those that came with [the foreign troops] and those […]

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Election Reporting Network (ERN) launched ahead of next year’s parliamentary polls

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Afghan Zariza, 19 November 2014 The Kabul-based magazine website reports about the launch of the Election Reporting Network (ERN), a countrywide cooperation between 70 Afghan journalists who came together in Kabul for a 2-day seminar organised in a cooperation by Mediothek Afghanistan, with financial support from the German government, and AAN. “Joined by representatives from Afghanistan Analysts […]

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850 Bundeswehrsoldaten sollen noch zwei Jahre in Afghanistan bleiben

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MDR Jump (German radio), 19 November 2014 Listen to an audio about the situation in Afghanistan, including some parts of an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German, starts at 1:50)

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New president Ghani swears in CEO Abdullah (left) and his two deputies, Khan Muhammad and Mohaqqeq (2nd and 1st fr. right). Photo c/o Pajhwok Afghan News.

2 Dec 2014: AAN at Podium in German Bundestag

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AAN’s co-director Thomas Ruttig is one of the participants of a public podium discussion at the German Bundestag, under the title “Afghanistan – Which Options for Further Engagement of the International Community?“ on 2 December 2014 in Berlin, organised by the Green party’s Bundestag faction. Day: 2 December 2014 Time: 6:30 – 8:30pm Venue: German […]

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Tar Finland ansvar för de afghanska tolkarna?

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YLE, 17 November 2014 The website of the Swedish service of Finnish TV quotes AAN founder Sari Kouvo, on a balance of the Finnish part of the ISAF mission: Sari Kouvo, grundare och styrelsemedlem i forskningsorganisationen Afghanistan Analyst Network, säger att det generellt i Afghanistan finns en stor oro för framtiden. Det beror dels på […]

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How the Taliban and a cow prove Afghanistan loves social media

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Global Post, 16 November 2014 It all started with a short article on a popular Afghan news website. Khaama Press reported that two members of the Taliban had been caught in a rather compromising position in the northern province of Badakhshan.  

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Der hohe Preis des Afghanistan-Einsatzes

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ZDF, 16 November 2014 Watch a video of Germany’s second largest public broadcaster ZDF (in German), from its Sunday’s “Berlin direct” programme, with a short balance of the German participation in the international Afghanistan mission, on the occasion of the opening of a memorial for the German soldiers killed in the country. With a short […]

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Insurgents in Afghanistan’s Laghman province may win by not losing

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Stars and Stripes, 15 November 2014 “This capacity of the insurgency to shift and concentrate its forces in different areas has proven particularly disruptive in the long run, often reversing improvements in districts which had been long under the Afghan government’s or international focus,” Fabrizio Foschini, a researcher with the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network, wrote […]

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