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Thomas Ruttig

Afghanistan: Die undurchsichtige Strategie von Trumps Sonderbotschafter

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Die Welt, 31 August 2019 In this op-ed for the conservative German daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at the contours of the pending US-Taleban agreement and argues that this is still short of a peace agreement (in German, behind a paywall). But the full text can be read here.  

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US-Verhandlungen mit den Taliban: „Dieses Abkommen werden viele sehr problematisch finden“

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Deutschlandfunk, 30 August 2019 Interview on German public radio (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, discussing the pros and cons of the bilateral US-Taleban not-yet-peace agreement (audio and transcript).

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US-Taleban talks: An imminent agreement without peace?

Thomas Ruttig • Martine van Bijlert •

News coming out of the latest round of US-Taleban negotiations suggest that an agreement is imminent, but that in the desire to meet the White House’s 1 September 2019 deadline, the US have made concessions that may well complicate an actual peace agreement in Afghanistan. It appears that the US have dropped the “nothing is […]

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Die Kulalgo-Killings

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Neues Deutschland, 29 August 2019 A shorter German version of the AAN research about a US-Afghan night raid that killed 11 young men – the Afghan government originally claimed they were Taleban, locals insist they were not (behind a paywall). A full PDF version here: 20190821ND-Die Kulalgo Killings PDF

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Compte enrere per a un acord entre els talibans i els Estats Units

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ara.cat, 25 August 2019 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this article in the Catalan daily on the US-Taleban negotiations in Afghanistan: En canvi, Thomas Ruttig, codirector d’Afghanistan Analysts Network -un dels centres d’estudis més prestigiosos sobre l’Afganistan, que compta amb personal sobre el terreny permanentment-, fa una altra lectura. Segons afirma, els EUA volen […]

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La paix est-elle possible avec les talibans en Afghanistan ?

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La Croix, 22 August 2019 Full interview (in French) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, discussing the topic whether “peace is possible with the Taleban” – answer: yes, but cautioning that a US-Taleban agreement would not mean immediate peace.

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Bommen, granaten en vredesonderhandelingen in Afghanistan

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Mondiaal Nieuws, 21 August 2019 This article on the Dutch news website about attempts for an Afghan peace and the strength of IS, as a possible spoiler, quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (not fully clear from which source) saying that ISKP was “marginal but still lethal”: Het is overigens niet helemaal duidelijk hoe belangrijk of marginaal […]

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On intensified violence in Afghanistan

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ABC News, 20 August 2019 Watch a short video of AAN’s Kate Clark talking about hopes (and lack of) for peace among Afghans, via the above Twitter link.

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Afghanistan nach 100 Jahren Unabhängigkeit

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ORF/Ö1, 19 August 2019 Listen to an audio of an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig with Austrian public radio (in German) about the situation after the IS-claimed wedding-hall bombing, the US-Taleban talks and the country’s centenary of independence.

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Tödliche Attentate auf Hochzeitsfeier und Moschee

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Tageszeitung, 19 August 2019 Summary of the information on the Kabul wedding hall bombing and a bomb attack near Quetta (Pakistan) that killed the brother of Taleban leader Hebatullah Akhunzada by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig for the Berlin-based daily (in German)

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IS bekennt sich zu Selbstmordanschlag auf Hochzeitsgesellschaft in Afghanistan

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ARD-Tagesschau, 18 August 2019 Listen to a short comment of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the IS wedding hall bombing in Kabul in Germany’s leading news programme (in German; Afghanistan part starts at 00:08:25).

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“Murder Is Always”: The Kulalgo night raid killings

Thomas Ruttig • AAN Team •

On the night of 11 and 12 August, what seems to have been a mixed US-Afghan commando raided several homes in Kulalgo, a large village in Zurmat district, Paktia. Eleven people were killed, civilians who had nothing to do with the insurgency, according to family members and local elders. They were ‘Taleban’ according to official […]

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