Politiken, 26 February 2016 The Danish daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and forthcoming AAN information about Helmand in this article about the precarious security situation in the province where Danish troops had been deployed over years and where the country financed its largest development project in Afghanistan, a hydropower station dubbed “Little Kajaki”: Oplysningerne om […]
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SRF, 24 February 2016 Both a transcript and an audio of an interview (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig regarding the hoped-for talks with the Taleban (go though Thomas’ German website, Afghanistan Zhaghdablai).
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Stars and Stripes, 21 February 2016 A very short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this interesting article looking at the general mood in Afghanistan (or amongst commentators) about possible talks with the Taleban: Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghan Analysts Network, said the issue has become “very polarizing” among Afghan citizens, partly because the […]
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The National Interest, 19 February 2016 In an op-ed for the National Interest’s blog The Buzz, Susanne Schmeidl, commenting on UNAMA’s annual report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan, refers to an AAN analysis: Kate Clark from the Afghanistan Analysts Network points out the obvious: the war has flipped. It is now “the Taliban driving the […]
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The Interpreter, 19 February 2016 Susanne Schmeidl comments on the latest UNAMA civilian casualty report and quotes from Kate Clark’s AAN dispatch about the same subject: Kate Clark from the Afghanistan Analysts Network points out the obvious: the war has flipped. It is now ‘the Taliban driving the conflict, with the ANSF largely trying to […]
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AfPak Channel (Foreign Policy), 19 February 2016 In his analysis of the “fracturing of Afghanistan’s body politic”, Ioannis Koskinas, Senior Fellow at New America Foundation, quotes an AAN dispatch about the stalled election reform by Ehsan Qaane and Martine van Bijlert: Afghanistan Analyst Network report, “the fact that [the] few members with experience or knowledge of elections are all […]
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Die Presse, 19 February 2016 The Austrian daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on reasons for the current mass flight of Afghan refugees and about the viability of so-called ‘safe zones’ in the country (in German): The weakness of the Afghan government is one factor for the last military successes of the Taleban, so Thomas Ruttig, […]
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The Diplomat, 17 February 2016 Reporting the 2015 UNAMA civilian casualty support for Afghanistan, Catherine Putz quotes from Kate Clark’s analysis of the report for AAN: As Kate Clark for the Afghan Analysts Network points out, “The single biggest factor affecting the Afghan conflict in 2015 was the almost complete absence of international forces on the battlefield.” […]
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dpa/Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 14 February 2016 A short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, commenting on the new rise of civilian casualty figures in Afghanistan as reported by the UN for 2015. He speaks about a “brutalisation of the war on all sides.”
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Radio Azadi, 14 February 2016 Listen to AAN’s Obaid Ali in an audio of a radio roundtable discussion about insurgent networks in northern Afghanistan and their possible relations with Central Asia.
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Washington Post, 11 February 2016 Three non-Afghan men continue to languish in what was a US-run prison at Bagram air base and has now been handed over to Afghan authorities – and although the country’s highest courts have agreed they should be freed. In the text, AAN’s Kate Clark’s research on the subject is quoted: … about […]
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Small Wars Journal, 4 February 2016 AAN’s Kate Clark talks with the NUG, Afghan forces, role of foreign forces, Af-Pak relations and answers a question on parallels with Najibullah’s fall in 1989 in an interview with SWJ web journal.
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