Tageszeitung, 29 September 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig with a first report on the Taleban’s second assault in 2015 on Kunduz, the former main base of the German troops in Afghanistan (in German).
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Deutsche Welle, 29 September 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on the motifs of so many Afghans leaving their country, many of them arriving in Europe (in German).
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Süddeutsche Zeitung, 29 September 2015 The Munich-based daily quotes from an AAN dispatch about Taleban territorial control all over the country – but misquotes: “… according to a count of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, the Islamists [ie the Taleban] permanently control only four [sic] of the around 400 districts of the country” (actually I wrote […]
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The Guardian, 29 September 2015 Two AAN analysts are quoted in this article about the Taleban taking Kunduz, Kate Clark and Borhan Osman: “Having a Taliban that is confident on the battlefield and which feels it can win militarily is not good for peace talks,” said Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, adding that even if […]
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SRF4, 29 September 2015 Listen to the audio of an interview (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig with Swiss radio about the Taleban’s attack on Kunduz and its implucations.
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Hufvudstadsbladet, 28 September 2015 AAN’s Obaid Ali is quoted in this article by the Finnish newspaper on the Taleban attack in Kabul (in Swedish): Med den djärva offensiven vill talibanerna först och främst skrämma regeringen, enligt Obaid Ali, expert på norra Afghanistan vid Afghanistan Analysts Network. Även om de lyckas inta centrala Kunduz tror han inte […]
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Lookout News/Panorama, 28 September 2015 Long interview with AAN’s Fabrizio Foschini on chances of peace negotiations with the Taleban (in Italian).
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De Volkskrant, 29 September 2015 AAN’s Obaid Ali in an interview on the situation in Kunduz with one of the leading Dutch dailies (in Dutch, limited access).
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Wiener Zeitung, 28 September 2015 Reporting on the Taleban attack on Kunduz, the Austrian daily quotes from an earlier AAN dispatch on Kunduz when describing triggers of the attack, including the slow pace of development projects and factional rifts in the provincial government (in German): Projekte in den Bereichen Gesundheitsfürsorge, Bildung, Landwirtschaft oder Wiederaufbau befänden […]
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Washington Post, 28 September 2015 The Post looks at the history of fighting in Kunduz, starting from United Front troops and US Special Forces retaking it from the Taleban in 2001. It quotes from and refers to AAN’s 2012 Kunduz report written by Nils Wörmer: As noted in this history by the Afghan Analysts Network [sic], Kunduz […]
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BBC, 23 September 2015 In an analysis of the structure of the Taleban movement after the change of leadership, AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted among other Taleban experts on the military commission, the Quetta shura and the ways of communication in the movement: Borhan Osman of the respected Afghanistan Analysts Network, AAN, says the military […]
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Sveriges Radio, 19 September 2015 Swedish radio compiled material about the Afghan conflict and quotes AAN’s Kate Clark: Kate Clark på den oberoende tankesmedjan Afghanistan Analysts Network ger också sin analys av läget i landet.
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