Spiegel, 9 September 2016 The German weekly magazine quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig with a bold quote: „Auch wenn Jesus und der Dalai-Lama als Regierungschefs gewählt würden – auch sie würden wohl scheitern“, sagt Thomas Ruttig, der Exdiplomat und heutige Kodirektor des Afghanistan Analysts Network.
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CNN, 5 September 2016 This article about Monday’s two Taleban-clamied attacks in Kabul has a short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Taleban new leader Hibatullah Akhundzada: Experts describe Akhundzada as a religious scholar and a member of the Taliban’s founding generation. He was close to founding Taliban leader Mullah Omar, said Thomas Ruttig of […]
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 4 September 2016 In this article looking at the balance and prospects of the Afghan national unity government (NUG), author Frud Bezhan quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, among others: “The political system we will see for a while is the current one, bogged down in an adjourned game with no easy and constitutional […]
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The Wire, 2 September 2016 This article in an Indian web magazin with the self-explanatory title has some quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: Thomas Ruttig, co-director of AAN, noted that the Enlightening Movement was certainly the largest social protest movement in terms of its mobilisation, but “there is also the issue of ethnic politicking, political […]
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Nikkei Asian Review, 31 August 2016 Ryskeldi Satke looks at the Afghan-Pakistani IS offshoot, which calls itself the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, for the Japanese outlet and quotes from AAN and AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based think tank that monitors political developments in the country, says ISKP has made “many enemies” […]
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IRIN, 26 August 2016 The Geneva-based (and formerly UN-linked) news agency has put Ann Wilkens’ AAN dispatch about Norway’s evaluation of its Afghanistan mission among this week’s top pick: The international community’s mission in Afghanistan has brought decidedly mixed results. A decade and a half after the Taliban regime was driven from power, a brutal […]
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Tageszeitung, 23 August 2016 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin daily: Taleban attacks in eight provinces and takeover of more district centres shows that they – not the government forces – still have the initiative. Afghan soldiers complain about lack of supplies and coordination.
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newsgram.com, 22 August 2016 New article quotes AAN’s most recent dispatch on Kunduz when it adds that: “Kunduz is currently the most vulnerable province in the Afghan North. Since the provincial capital fell last year, Kunduz has seen more attacks on district centres than any other province in the country,” according to Kabul-based independent Afghanistan Analysts Network.
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ARD, 22 August 2016 The prime time news of Germany’s leading TV channel ARD quotes AAN on Kunduz (in German): Im Juli waren bereits zwei weitere Distrikt-Hauptorte gefallen. In diesen Orten brach die öffentliche Verwaltung zusammen, die Beamten zogen sich zwischenzeitlich in ein Ausbildungszentrum für Lehrer sowie in ein nahe gelegenes Dorf zurück. Ein weiterer […]
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dpa/sda, 22 August 2016 The dpa material on the latest Kunduz fighting, briefly quoting from a recent AAN analysis of the situation in the province by Lola Cecchinel (here in German), has been used by several newspapers, TV channels and websites in Germany (incl Handelsblatt, Bild, N24, Greenpeace-Magazin) and Switzerland (incl Tagesanzeiger, Der Bund, 20 […]
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VOA News, 20 August 2016 Article on the fall and recapture of Khanabad district in Kunduz quotes AAN’s recent dispatch on the situation in the province: “Kunduz is currently the most vulnerable province in the Afghan North. Since the provincial capital fell last year, Kunduz has seen more Taliban attacks on district centers than any […]
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VOA News, 19 August 2016 A brief reportage, discussing the recent Human Rights Watch report that criticised the use of schools by Afghan security forces in Taliban-Held areas, refers to AAN’s dispatch on the situation in Baghlan: “The Afghanistan Analysts’ Network is pessimistic about the future of the security situation in Baghlan. It notes that the recently captured […]
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