AFP/Express Tribune et al, 31 October 2016 In an article about the latest Afghan poppy cultivation boom, the French News agency looks at Helmand province and quotes, among others, AAN’s Jelena Bjelica: “Some parts of Helmand plant twice a year, because of the favourable climate, but three poppy seasons would be thanks to genetically modified seeds,” […]
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San Antonio Express-News, 29 October 2016 In this article with a particular local US angle on troops in Afghanistan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on the general effectiveness of the Afghan troops (apparently using an ealier publication): In the view of Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghan Analysts Network, a nonprofit research group, the performance of […]
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Heise (online), 28 October 2016 Article on ISKP quotes AAN researcher Borhan Osman: Für Analysten und Beobachter ist das Vorgehen des IS dennoch besorgniserregend. “Diese Angriffe sind ein Anzeichen dafür, dass die Gruppierung eine gewisse Nummer von engagierten und erfahrenen Kämpfern in der Hauptstadt rekrutieren konnte. Obwohl es schwer zu sagen ist, wie groß die […]
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AFP, 26 October 2016 In its widely-published article on the abduction and killing of civilians in Ghor, AFP quotes provincial council member Abdul Hameed Nateqi, a UN press release, Amnesty International, top US and NATO commander John Nicholson and AAN researcher Borhan Osman: “(IS) announces its emergence in Ghor by murdering dozens of civilians,” said […]
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SRF, 25 October 2016 Listen to the audio and read a transcript (in German) of an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig with Swiss Radio about the security situation in Afghanistan before the backdrop of planned (or desired) deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers. He argues that a political solution – and therefore talks with the […]
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n-tv (online), 24 October 2016 This short article on the recent killing of civilians by a self-proclaimed IS cell in Ghor, quotes AAN’s recent dispatch on the recent ISKP bomb attack in Kabul: Aus einer Analyse des Rechercheinstituts Afghanistan Analysts Network von vergangener Woche geht hervor, dass der IS nun auch in der Hauptstadt Kabul […]
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dpa/Spiegel and others, 23 October 2016 In this article reporting the increasing opium production in Afghanistan, AAN’s Jelena Bjelica is quoted as saying: Es gebe einen “gut dokumentierten Zusammenhang zwischen Unsicherheit und Mohnanbau”, sagt Jelena Bjelica vom Rechercheinstitut Afghanistan Analysts Network. “Mohn hat wenige Risiken in einer Hochrisiko-Umgebung. Es ist eine natürliche Wahl für Bauern im […]
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dpa/Tiroler Tageszeitung, N24 and TRT German, 18 October 2016 This article (based on a dpa news agency text) on the recent increase in Taleban attacks quotes AAN reporting from March 2016 on the Taleban’s “Red Units”: Andererseits, sagen Sicherheitsexperten, haben die Taliban die Zeit seit dem Abzug der internationalen Truppen genutzt, um sich zu professionalisieren. […]
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BBC, 14 October 2016 It is twenty years since the Taleban captured Kabul. AAN’s Kate Clark arrived in the city three years later in 1999 as the BBC correspondent. This week she was asked to reflect on the changes between then and now for the BBC radio programme, For Our Own Correspondent. Kate remembers a city […]
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13 October 2016 Article in German on Afghanistan’s current “multi-front war” quotes AAN’s recent dispatch by Obaid Ali on the Taleban’s latest assault on Kunduz city (Deja vu, but why?): Laut Obaid Ali, der für die Denkfabrik Afghanistan Analysts Network den jüngsten Vorstoss auf Kunduz analysiert hat, ist nicht strategisches Versagen der Regierungskräfte, sondern […]
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Zeit online, 11 October 2016 In this article putting the ‘Merkel factor’ of the 2015 migration movements into Europe into context, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in the part “If it wasn’t Merkel, then who was it?”, referring to the “security situation in Afghanistan worsened significantly.” Thomas Ruttig of the Afghanistan Analysts Network estimates that between […]
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Inside Higher Ed (website), 10 October 2016 Report on the aftermath of the recent attack on the American University of Afghanistan and the abduction of two of its professors, quotes a recent dispatch by AAN’s Borhan Osman. The dispatch discussed the Taleban’s inner dynamics with regard to the attack and the fact that it wasn’t claimed. […]
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