Middle East Online, 17 August 2016 In this article on the London-based website about “hypocritical standards that justify war crimes” in the “U.S. foreign policy establishment and its mainstream media”, the author refers to AAN publications by Kate Clark: Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network has documented that U.S. rules of engagement already permit routine targeting of […]
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El Correo and Sur, 14 August 2016 Quotes from AAN’s Lenny Linke and Thomas Ruttig in this article about Afghan-Pakistani relations in two Spanish newspapers. See the PDP files here: part 1: El Correo part 1 part 2: El Correo part 2
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The Diplomat, 12 August 2016 Article on recent impasse between president Ghani and CEO Abdullah quotes AAN’s dispatches on whether the NUG is about to run out and links to one of its dispatches on electoral reform: The two-year deadline is September 2016. But as Martine van Bijlert and Ali Yawar Adili pointed out in a […]
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Deutsche Welle, 12 August 2016 In this article about the ongoing role of militias in Afghanistan (in German), AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted: “[Warlords] spielen eine Schlüsselrolle im politischen Gesamtsystem, wie es nach 2001 errichtet wurde”, erläutert Thomas Ruttig, Co-Direktor des Afghanistan Analysts Network gegenüber der DW. “Abgesehen von ganz wenigen, niederrangigen Ausnahmen wurde niemand […]
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Christian Science Monitor, 12 August 2016 This article about Afghan refugees stuck in Turkey briefly refers to the joint AAN-FES on decisionmaking in Afghan households about leaving for Europe.
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ARA, 8 August 2016 The Catalan news website picked up information from Borhan Osman’s latest AAN dispatches about the IS: Borhan Osman, investigador de l’Afghanistan Analysts Network, explica en un informe recent que Daeix és capaç d’“exectuar operacions ocasionals” al país amb l’ajuda de “reclutes locals” i de causar nombroses baixes, però insisteix que tots […]
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Politiken, 7 August 2016 The Danish daily quotes from Borhan Osman’s dispatches about the latest developments within the Afghan Taleban: Allerede dengang advarede eksperter fra den anerkendte tænketank Afghan Analyst Network (AAN) mod overdreven optimisme, de pegede især på, at Mansoors efterfølge, mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada blev udpeget meget hurtigt og af et enigt Taleban. Under […]
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Straits Times, 1 August 2016 Pakistani Dawn columnist Rana’s piece, reprinted in the Singaporean daily, quotes from AAN’s latest dispatches about IS in Afghanistan: Dispatches from Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent research group, indicate that while ISIS attempts to expand beyond Nangarhar have been unsuccessful thus far, attempts are ongoing. One dispatch mentioned that ‘ISIS […]
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The Diplomat, 28 July 2016 This very interesting article, including results of a face-to-face interview with an IS commander in Nangrahar province, has a short reference to AAN’s Borhan Osman writing about the situation in Achin district, one of the few IS’s remaining strongholds in the country.
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ORF, 27 July 2016 Listen to the audio of an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the influence of IS (Daesh) in Afghanistan with Austrian radio (in German).
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TT/Göteborgs-Posten, 26 July 2016 The Swedish news agency quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the situation of IS in Afghanistan after the 23 July Kabul terror attack: – De har förlorat mycket av det territorium som de kontrollerat där, och det var inte mycket till att börja med. IS har pressats tillbaka av amerikanska drönar- och flygattacker, […]
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ABC Australia, 25 July 2016 A few quotes of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this transcript of the Australian broadcaster’s “The full story” programme on the 23 July Kabul terror attack: (…) Thomas Ruttig from the Afghanistan Analysts Network says while Taliban attacks do kill civilians, it doesn’t usually target them. That’s because, he says, the […]
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