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Einsatz in Afghanistan: Deutscher General bei Angriff verletzt

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Berliner Zeitung and Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 5 August 2014 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on the general security situation, after the attack at the Military Academy near Kabul during which a US general was killed and a German general wounded: “The security situation continues to be difficult. Over summer, it even got more hectic. In some cases, […]

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Document: The Saur Death List of Afghanistan

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BBC Radio 4, 4 August 2014 Link to the 28-minutes audio file of a radio feature about the PDPA government of Hafizullah Amin’s death list of political prisoners, a case against a former torturer in the Netherlands and post-2001 Afghanistan’s history of Western-abetted impunity. Featuring, among others, HRW’s (and AAN member) Patti Gossman and former AIHRC […]

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2nd largest Afghan city could go dark when U.S. subsidies end

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McClatchy newspapers, 4 August 2014 Residents and businesses in Kandahar could go without power when US subsidies for diesel fuel phase out next year, according to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. The Pentagon will continue to provide subsidized fuel to the Afghan government, tapering the amount over the preceding months from […]

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Neuer Boykott der Wahlauszählung

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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 3 August 2014 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig summarises the situation on 2 August when the Abdullah campaign announced a new boycott of the audit, arguing its demands on the criteria had not been accepted. (The situation has developed since, although an agreement on the criteria is still missing.)

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Football in Afghanistan is thriving in the face of adversity

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The National (UAE), 2 August 2014 In this latest installment of the daily’s “unlikely sporting success stories”, about football in Afghanistan, the author quotes from the two only football reports from Taleban Afghanistan, by Kate Clark (then BBC, now AAN) and AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, republished on AAN.

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Game of thrones: Afghan leadership vacuum raises summit questions

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Reuters, 1 August 2014 There seem to be discussions about whom to invite as Afghanistan’s representative to the5-6 September NATO summit in Britain: President Karzai’s constitional tenure is over – although he is still in office –, and the new president is still unknown. Unofficial voices from  among ‘diplomats’ say the US do not want […]

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Das Wahlchaos geht weiter (not online yet)

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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 31 July 2014 Article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig describing latest developments in the Afghan post-election process, including the third stop of the audit, continuing lack of agreement about criteria between the two candidates and UN attempts to find a way out, and some outcomes of the impass: demonstrations by journalists against the long […]

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A title-less “Op-Ed from Secretary Kerry”

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Tolonews, 30 July 2014 This op-ed for the Afghan media group seeks to clarify reports in the Afghan media that the election agreement brokered by the author between presidential contenders Abdullah and Ghani also contained an agreement to switch to a parliamentary system. After stating that “It’s not for outsiders to describe the contents of […]

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Die Sieger von Kunduz [The German troops in operation Halmazag]

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Deutschlandfunk, 29 July 2014 Audio of a radio feature (in German) by German freelancer Marc Thörner who found out that German troops in Kunduz province – during what has often been described as “Germany’s first military offensive since World War II” – have killed a number of Afghan civilians (and found proof for it) during […]

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Afghanistan in World War I (1): Afghans in the Kaiser’s jihad

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 A hundred years ago, on 28 July 1914, the First World War started when Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia after a group of young pro-independence Serbian terrorists shot dead the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in Sarajevo one month earlier. Soon, millions were dying on the battlefields across four continents in what was termed the “first global […]

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A US-backed militia runs amok in Afghanistan

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al-Jazeera, 23 July 2014 In this reportage from Andar by Matt Aikins where a US-backed ‘uprising’ militia allegedly killed three civilians, an incident confirmed by the UN and denied by ISAF, AAN is quoted – through three links – on the history of the Andar anti-Taleban ‘uprising’ and the configuration of local militias.

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Why Afghanistan’s National Unity Government Is Risky

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Foreign Policy (blog), 22 July 2014 In this article  on FP’s ‘South Asia Channel”, authors Srinjoy Bose and Niamat Ibrahimi quote AAN’s Kate Clark – not attributed to AAN but called a “journalist” (although linking to her AAN dispatch) – is quoted as saying that the current audit of Afghanistan’s presidential vote “is also a deeply political […]

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