Radio France International, 25 July 2016 Quotes of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on UNAMA’s latest report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan on the website of France’s international radio: “After the breakdown of attempts to get peace talks with the Taliban going, the Afghan government has said we will switch to a military solution for the time […]
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SRF, 24 July 2016 Listen to the audio (in German) on Swiss radio of a live interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about how strong the IS is in Afghanistan, as context to the heavy terror attack on 23 July in Kabul.
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Tageszeitung, 25 July 2016 Summary of the facts about the IS-claimed terror attack on a Hazara protest demonstration in Kabul, by “Thomas Ruttig and Afghanistan Analysts Network, Kabul”. Among other things, Thomas writes that the IS in Afghanistan is actually weak, has suffered territorial losses and might therefore take recourse to terrorist attacks. The infrastructure, […]
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il manifesto, 24 July 2016 In context with the 23 July Kabul terror attack, Giuliano Battiston explains the background of the “enlightenment” protest movement and Afghanistan’s dependency on external sources for electrical power, quoting from an earlier AAN dispatch, for the left-wing Italian daily: Attraverso questi progetti, l’Afghanistan – tra i 5 paesi con il […]
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 24 July 2016 The leading Swiss daily quotes AAN’s Obaid Ali on the IS’s strength in Afghanistan, saying that this is difficult to determine, that Islamist groups in other parts of the country [beyond Nangrahar] have declared their allegiance to IS but that this has more to do with distancing themselves from […]
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Stars and Stripes, 22 July 2016 Reporting about a recent pledge by the Afghan Taleban’s new leader to give more rights to women living in areas under the group’s control, the daily newspaper quotes AAN’s Kate Clark: Kate Clark, a senior analysts with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, cautioned that conceptions of what constitute women’s rights “can […]
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Die Welt, 21 July 2016 The conservative German daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the ongoing in enquiry in the country about the background, including the (Afghan or Pakistani) nationality and citizenship, of the train attacker from Würzburg who had registered himself as an Afghan when seeking asylum. Thomas says from the info available the […]
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dpa/The Local, 19 July 2016 This background material, quoting and linking to AAN on some of its aspects, has been distributed by the German news agency dpa in the context of the recent axe attack of a suspected Afghan refugee on a train in Germany.
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Frankfurter Rundschau, 19 July 2016 Willi Germund, in the German daily, quotes both from the AAN/FES study and AAN’s Borhan Osman, on the situation and motives of Afghan refugees and on radicalisation among young Afghans: „In Afghanistan verlassen die Bewohner jeden Tag ihre Heimat. Manche bleiben woanders im Land, die meisten gehen nach Pakistan und […]
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The Diplomat, 16 July 2016 The Asia/Pacific-focussed web magazine finds in its “Weekend Central Asia reads”: Christian Bleuer’s two dispatches (here and here) for the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network on the myth of Chechens fighting in Afghanistan are worth reading, as is Kate Clark’s recollection of searching for Chechens in 2000 in Afghanistan.
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Tageszeitung, 11 July 2016 Here is Thomas Ruttig’s op-ed commentary on the NATO decision to extend Mission Resolute Support – without an end date (in German). His separate summary of the Warsaw NATO summit’s decisions only in the print version.
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New York Times, 11 July 2016 The Times quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman in a portrait of new Taleban leader H(a)ibatullah Akhundzada: “Mawlawi Haibatullah’s area of influence is with the mullahs and the religious leaders, not the management and the commanders,” said Borhan Osman, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network who has written extensively about the Taliban. How […]
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