Reuters, 16 October 2015 After the US decision to keep the current number of troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016, a quote in which AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is trying to answer what this can contribute to security in Afghanistan: Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said Afghan troops needed more support, but he added: […]
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Pakistan Today, 16 October 2015 In an op-ed for the Pakistani website, a participantof the Pakistan-Afghanistan Bilateral Dialogue from the Regional Peace Institute (RPI) in Herat earlier this month organised by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) mentions “informed and credible inputs from three experts from the Carnegie, Atlantic Council and the Afghan[istan] Analysts Network”.
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El País, 16 October 2015 In an article about current Taleban military successes, a dispatch by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here, saying that – apart from district taken by the Taleban – around 150 others are vulnerable: “Al menos otras 150 son vulnerables a sus ataques”, aseguraba recientemente a este diario Thomas Ruttig, […]
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Qantara, 12 October 2015 In this article by Emran Feroz on this blog, a project of Deutsche Welle, in which the author discusses reasons for Afghans to flee their country in the current situation, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted (In German) about the US air attack on the MSF clinic in Kunduz, saying that there […]
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Newsweek, 12 October 2015 Two short quotes – one of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and one from an earlier AAN dispatch: The amount of territory the Taliban control in Afghanistan tends to ebb and flow as they launch frequent fresh offensives, but Thomas Ruttig, co-director and co-founder of the research organization the Afghanistan Analysts Network, notes […]
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Express Tribune, 6 October The author of an op-ed for the Pakistani daily quotes from AAN dispatches about Kunduz and its militias: The Afghan Analysts Network (AAN), an independent not-for-profit research organisation, reported that the operation initiated with the help of illegal militias was “originally aimed at routing out the Taliban, but became more of […]
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Tageszeitung, 6 October 2015 An op-ed commentary by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the US airstrike on the MSF clinic in Kunduz, drawing parallels to a 2009 German-ordered airstrike killing scores of civilians, also in Kunduz: the intelligence failure (Afghan sources claiming there were [only] Taleban in the target area and the justification, namely force protection. […]
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Tageszeitung, 6 October 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig reports, for the Berlin-based daily, the latest developments after the US strike on a MSF clinic in Kunduz, including the US military’s claim that the Afghan government had asked for the strike (in German).
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Klassekampen, 5 October 2015 The Norwegian daily extensively quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the US dropping bombs on an NGO-run clinic: – Det er ikke overraskende at Taliban forsøker et angrep på byen, men det er overraskende at de klarer å holde deler av byen i en uke. Det viser at Taliban er bedre organisert […]
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Wirtualna Polska, 5 October 2015 The Polish website, in an extensive analysis on the situation in Afghanistan after the Kunduz events, quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman (but re-locates him to Berlin): – To nie tak, że Talibowie stali się dla mieszkańców atrakcyjni, ale prorządowe milicje i lokalna policja zachowują się tak skandalicznie, że sprawiły, że struktury państwa stały […]
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Time, 5 October 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in the online version of the magazine, on the situation in Kunduz: “I think a lot of people expected the Taliban to claim a symbolic victory of taking Kunduz and leave. But they haven’t — they’ve dug in. Unfortunately, they’ve held out much better than what […]
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Pravda, 5 October 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted again in the leading Slovak daily, here about the circumstances of the Taleban advance on Kunduz and the MSF bombing: “Útok na nemocnicu v Kundúze však môže mať vplyv na to, ako by Afganci vnímali, keby sa medzinárodné jednotky rozhodli predĺžiť a prípadne aj posilniť svoju prítomnosť […]
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