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Thomas Ruttig

Gespräche zwischen Taliban und Russland: Auch Moskau spielt die Taliban-Karte

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Tageszeitung, 6 February 2019 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig summarises and analysis the Russian-sponsored “intra-Afghan dialogue” in Moscow that excluded the Afghan government for the Berlin-based daily (in German).

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Peace, Politics, & Afghanistan’s Next President

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The Diplomat, 5 February 2019 Ali Adili, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent think tank, says that developments in the peace talks would not result in holding elections, but rather the establishment of a caretaker government. “There is uncertainty,” Adili adds. “The peace talks and calls for reform of the electoral bodies […]

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Переговоры по урегулированию в Афганистане должны вестись с участием властей страны – эксперт

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Interfax/Swissinfo, 5 February 2019 Quotes by Thomas Ruttig for the private Russian news agency printed by the Russian service of Swiss radio/TV about the Russian-sponsored “intra-Afghan dialogue”, saying that the positive aspect of this was that Afghan factions, including the Taleban, are talking to each other while its negative aspect was that the Afghan government […]

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“Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”: First steps in Afghan peace negotiations

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With the US-Taleban negotiations in Doha actually addressing how to end the Afghan war, and with first progress being made in the form of an agreed draft framework, Afghanistan seems to be slowly inching beyond the impasse of only ‘talks about talks.’ With this, a peace process has possibly left the starting blocks, but only […]

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Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig über die Taliban, USA & Frieden

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Jung&Naiv, 3 February 2019 Over 100 minutes about Afghanistan with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this edition of the award-winning video blog, covering much from the current US-Taleban talks and elections (past and future) to how the conflict evolved in the beginning (in German).

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Ironiskt löfte i USA:s avtal med talibanerna

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Svenska Dagbladet, 2 February 2019 AAN research is quoted in this analysis of Trump’s Afghanistan policy in the leading Swedish daily (behind a paywall).

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Близо ли е краят на Афганистанската война [Is the end of the Afghan war near?]

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Bulgarian National Radio, 2 February 2019 Interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the US-Taleban talks and perspectives for Afghanistan, with audio and summary.  Full transcript of the interview here (in Bulgarian)

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US-Truppenabzug aus Afghanistan: War alles umsonst?

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Spiegel, 1 Februar 2019 A short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this look at possible repercussions of a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and Zalmya Khalilzad’s Taleban talks (in German), saying that there must be fears that this mission might repeat the re-establishment of warlord rule, only in another composition (adding the Taleban), excluding […]

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Afghan government control and troop numbers at record lows, report says

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Stars and Stripes, 31 January 2019 In this article about the latest SIGAR figures on the relation of government and Taleban territorial control, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted as saying: Despite the most recent data, Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, did not believe the security situation was near a tipping point. But, […]

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AAN obituary: Ludwig Adamec, the Afghanistan Encyclopedian (1924-2019)

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Professor Ludwig W Adamec was the author of “The Who is Who of Afghanistan” – a book every student of Afghanistan will have encountered early in her or his career. Printed in 1975, and updated several times since then, it is nothing less than one of the standard works of Afghan studies. AAN’s Thomas Ruttig […]

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På vei til å vinne krigen

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Klassekampen, 29 January 2019 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig quoted extensively in Norwegian daily, together Kristian Harpviken, saying: Thomas Ruttig, forsker og ved i forskningsorganisasjonen Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) sier til Klassekampen at han ikke er optimistisk, nettopp fordi Kabul-regjeringen har uttrykt motstand mot forhandlinger om regjeringens sammensetning. – Det er bra at Taliban deltar i samtaler […]

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Afghanistan : premier pas vers un accord de paix

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Le Figaro, 29 January 2019 A quote by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig for the French daily, warning that the Taleban do not share ideas of an election- and one-person-one-vote based democratic system (behind a pay wall): Les talibans admettent qu’ils ne sont pas la seule force politique en présence. Dans leurs discours, ils affirment être prêts […]

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