10 June 2016, ecoi.net The European Country of Origin Information Network has posted a report by ACCORD (the Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation) on Laghman province that extensively quotes from AAN’s dispatch by Borhan Osman on the Taleban’s announced spring offensive.
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NPR, 6 June 2016 In this article about the new Taleban leader on the website of US national public radio, AAN is quoted twice (with links to our website), on the Taleban’s (un-willingness) to negotiate with the Afghan government and on the (not yet finished) peace deal between the Afghan government and Hezb-e Islami: Part […]
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Eurasia review, 4 June 2016 Detailed article quotes AAN’s dispatch on Afghanistan’s electricity grid by guest author Mohsin Amin: According to Afghanistan Analyst Network (AAN), the national power grid operates in nine different ‘islands’/grids depending on power supply sources. This means that different regions are supplied by different sources, and due to technical limitations these regions […]
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Qantara, 3 June 2016 AAN’s analysis is quoted in this article on the web portal that represents the concerted effort of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Center for Political Education), Deutsche Welle, the Goethe Institut and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) to promote dialogue with the Islamic world: … spectacular suicide […]
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Etilaat-e Ruz, 9 Jauza 1395 (31 May 2016) The Kabul daily published the Dari translation of Borhan Osman’s AAN dispatch “Taleban in Transition: How Mansur’s death and Haibatullah’s ascension may affect the war (and peace)” in three parts – this is the first one. Here the other links: part 2 and part 3.
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30 May 2016, The Diplomat Article in The Diplomat leans heavily on the recent dispatch on refugees and landlessness by AAN’s Jelena Bjelica: Unfortunately, those that return to Afghanistan are still in for considerable uncertainty. In a recent report for the Afghanistan Analysts Network, Jelena Bjelica dives into why many Afghan returnees remain landless, despite several […]
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Thüringer Allgemeine, 26 May 2016 The regional newspaper from the central German state of Thuringia quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in an article summing up Afghan developments after the killing of Taleban leader Mansur in an US airstrike.
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Washington Post, 25 May 2016 Short quotes of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul, said that although Akhundzada is known to be a hard-line cleric, he eventually may be more willing to reopen peace talks — an idea that Mansour had opposed. “At the same time, the Taliban […]
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Il manifesto, 25 May 2016 The left-wing Italian daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the new Taleban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada: Secondo Thomas Ruttig, co-direttore dell’Afghanistan Analysts Network di Kabul, Akhundzada avrebbe goduto dell’incondizionata fiducia del mullah Omar, che lo consultava per dirimere le questioni più delicate.
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The Guardian, 25 May 2016 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this article about the succession at the top of the Taleban: “It happened much quicker than expected, which shows that the Taliban knows the gravity of the situation, and are trying their best to keep the movement united,” said Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network […]
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Hasht-e Sobh, 24 May 2016 AAN’s Ehsan Qaane looks at the death of Taleban leader Mullah Mansur and its repercussions (in Dari). Soon in full on the AAN Dari/Pasho website.
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dpa/Die Welt, 23 May 2016 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here (in German) with doubts that the Taleban would become more amenable to peace talks after the killing of their leader Mullah Mansur: Es sei durchaus nicht sicher, sagt der deutsche Afghanistanexperte Thomas Ruttig, dass die Taliban noch gesprächsbereit seien, “nachdem ihnen der Anführer weggebombt […]
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