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Thomas Ruttig

Doha-Treffen: Gewalt in Afghanistan soll reduziert werden

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dpa/ORF, 9 July 2019 In this summary of the intra-Afghan Doha ‘peace conference’ and its joinr final statement (in German), there is a first reaction by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: Der Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig von der Denkfabrik Afghanistan Analysts Network wies darauf hin, dass es sich bei der Dialogkonferenz um keine formellen Verhandlungen gehandelt habe. Das […]

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Afghanische Friedensbemühungen: Eisbrechen mit den Taliban

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Tageszeitung, 8 July 2019 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, in his latest op-ed for the Berlin-based daily, reviews the set-up and context of the intra-Afghan dialogue conference held in Doha after its first round on Sunday, 7 July 2019 (in German).

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Vorsichtiger Optimismus bei Afghanistan-Treffen in Doha

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dpa, 8 July 2019 The German press agency quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the ongoing intra-Afghan dialogue conference in Doha: Der Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig von der Kabuler Denkfabrik Afghanistan Analysts Network sagte, es gebe viel Gepäck und fehlendes Vertrauen auf allen Seiten. Doha sei daher eine Chance, Misstrauen abzubauen und sich darauf zu konzentrieren, nach […]

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Afghanistan-Konferenz : „Auf Wunsch der Konfliktparteien“

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 7 July 2019 The leading German daily looks at the intra-Afghan dialogue conference starting today in Doha and the German role in it. AAN is quoted from Thomas Ruttig’s latest analysis of the talks process, but on the hints of an undeclared Taleban ceasefire over the recent Eid days: Auch zu einer […]

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Intensifying Violence Dulls Afghans’ Hopes for Peace

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International Crisis Group, 5 July 2019 In this commentary, ICG analyst and former AAN colleague Borhan Osman revisits “war-torn districts of rural Afghanistan” in Wardak, Ghazni, and Paktika provinces where he had travelled in June this year, over the Eid al-Fitr holidays, as he did the previous year. He was told about a “dramatic worsening […]

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Intra-Afghan Talks May Be Doomed by Differences Over Future Political System

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Afghan Online Press News, 1 July 2019 This article quotes from AAN’s latest analysis of the different layers of the Afghanistan peace talks: The Afghanistan Analysts Network’s Thomas Ruttig, in an excellent analytical piece, explains that the Taliban want to see a shura-ye hal o aqd – an Islamic form of representation through elite selection […]

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Before Doha 7: Afghanistan peace efforts recovering from a lull?

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The seventh round of United States-Taleban talks in Doha is imminent. But US-Taleban negotiations in Doha for a negotiated solution to the Afghan war have been stalling in recent rounds, after some initial progress. So far they also still exclude the third key actor, the Afghan government. Parties in the so-called intra-Afghan dialogue have also […]

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Afghanistan and the ongoing hype about Daesh

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TRT World, 25 June 2019 Thomas Ruttig, a co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, […] also underlines the fact that similar rumours appeared in the recent past. “Repeatedly, there were reports, more likely rumours, about massive movements of IS fighters from Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan. However, I’m sceptical. My organisation followed such reports in […]

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The Taliban is killing fewer civilians but a worrying new trend is emerging

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TRT World, 21 June 2019 The Turkish state broadcaster’s website reports, based on latest UNAMA reports, that civilian casualties caused by the Taleban have fallen, while those attributed to the pro-government side are rising and the Afghan government and its allies killed more civilians in the first months of 2019 than the Taleban, the first time […]

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How US “good guys” wiped out an Afghan family

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 3 June 2019 The story of a whole family killed by an American bomb – except the father, working in Iran – in a Taleban-controlled part of Jaghatu, Wardak province; another story of denial (“we don’t have a report” on a bomb drop on such-and-such day at that place). Following The Bureaus’s […]

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Speaking Out: Afghanistan – Rightsizing Expectations

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(U.S.) Foreign Service Journal, June 2019 Insights into US Afghanistan policy by the former acting deputy assistant secretary for Afghanistan and deputy chief of mission in Kabul – not that we did not know, but good to have it in writing, from ‘the horse’s mouth’: The turnover of U.S. diplomats and military officials, and our short […]

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Afghanistan, la difficile bataille de la paix est lancée

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Le Croix, 14 June 2019 Two quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this analysis of the French daily  of the ongoing peace efforts in Afghanistan, on the US special envoy’s initial contribution to problems involving the Afghan government and about peace hopes and the disinclination of large parts of the population to return to the […]

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