Financial Times, 25 August 2021 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here on the controversial issue whether the Taleban have changed or not: Thomas Ruttig, a founder of the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, said the Taliban had always been a “learning organisation” well aware of its past failures. Some former officials of the Taliban’s 1990s government […]
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Qantara, 17 August 2021 The Germany-based Near/Middle East-centered website reviews AAN co-founder Thomas Ruttig’s paper for CTC Sentinel on “whether the Talban have changed.”
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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 13 August 2021 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig provids the latest round-up of the quickly changing security situation in Afghanistan (in German)
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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 12 August 2021 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at the reasons behind the unexpected Taleban success in northern Afghanistan, deemed to be an anti-Taleban stronghold – and why this has not been the case anymore for many years (in German).
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Tagesspiegel, 9 August 2021 Next to the former German foreign minister, also AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here: Auch nach Einschätzung des Afghanistan-Experten Thomas Ruttig ist der Fall von Kundus ein wichtiger Erfolg für die Taliban. „Sie haben jetzt von dort und von Süd-Afghanistan aus die Option, auf Kabul zu marschieren“, sagte Ruttig dem Tagesspiegel. […]
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Tageszeitung, 9 August 2021 Another round-up (in German) of the current security situation in Afghanistan, after the Taleban captured several provincial capitals, by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig. With an additional commentary.
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dpa/Generalanzeiger, 8 August 2021 Der Verlust kleinerer Provinzhauptstädte sei „für die Regierung ein enormer Prestigeverlust, aber noch zu verschmerzen“, meint der Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig von der Kabuler Denkfabrik Afghanistan Analysts Network. Der Fall von Kundus hingegen „wiegt schwerer“. Er könnte den Weg in die Hauptstadt öffnen, nach Kabul. Man müsse allerdings die Frage stellen, ob […]
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ZDF, 6 August 2021 AAN’s Thomas Rutig commenting about the role of former Guantanamo and other Taleban ex-prisoners in Doha, after between German government and Taleban representatives: Die wenigen Taliban-Führer, die aus Gefängnissen in Guantanamo oder Pakistan entlassen wurden, gehören für Afghanistan-Experte Ruttig zu den Schlüsselfiguren des Konflikts. “Sie haben überlebt und sind bei ihren […]
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Tageszeitung, 4 August 2021 A round-up of the current security situation (Taleban advances and attack on defence minister’s residence in Kabul), but also a discussion of which reports on Taleban atrocities are real and which are possibly made up.
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AFP/France24, 4 August 2021 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here on the dropping morale in the Afghan government forces: “Even if the government had intended to let some districts fall… the damage to morale of the security forces and of the nation of seeing districts toppling like dominoes cannot be underestimated,” Kate Clark of the […]
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ARTE, 4 August 2021 In this video in French/German TV channel’s main news bulletin, quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in French) about Afghanistan’s split political elite as one factor for the government’s weakness vis-à-vis advancing Taleban.
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Financial Times, 2 August 2021 AAN country director Ali Yawar Adili is quoted in this article about the general security situation in Afghanistan: “There has been a stronger push from the Taliban side into at least two major cities, Herat and Lashkar Gah, and there is still fighting going on,” said Ali Yawar Adili, country […]
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