Khaama Press, 12 September 2015 The Kabul-based news agency, in what looks like an op-ed article, on ex-president Hamed Karzai’s latest statements on his disbelief about the existence of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan quotes AAN for some background (actually it was an excerpt from Bette Dam’s book about Karzai which AAN helped to publish): According to an […]
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Deutschlandradio Wissen, 11 September 2015 Listen to a half-hour audio about love, sexuality and violence (in German) that was broadcast on German radio, covering issues like the first Afghan radio program covering those issues, but also phenomena like bachabazi and bachaposh. The latter part is covered in an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig.
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Südlink 173, September 2015 Joint article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and Obaid Ali in the Berlin-based and NGO-run development magazine’s special issue on “resources justice”, on the Ainak copper mining projects and its problems: displacement, environmental problems and a lack of transparency (in German; the article is not available online; go to the website to order a […]
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Tageszeitung, 9 September 2015 In this full article, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig summarises latest events in Afghanistan’s neighbouring country of Tajikistan where the government just closed down a moderate Islamic opposition party, the PIRT, the only legal one so far in Central Asia, on Monday. On Friday, armed groups led by a just sacked deputy defence […]
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Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, 9 September 2015 The northern German daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig via dpa on Musa Qala’s role in the drug economy (in German).
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RBB-Inforadio, 6 September 2015 AAN’s Borhan Osman can be heard in this 15-minutes feature (from 3:30), covering the security situation in Northern Afghanistan (reporting from an IDP camp in Dehdadi, near Mazar-e Sharif, inhabited by people who fled from Shirin Tagab); the changes in the Taleban leadership and IS inroads; German training in Mazar…
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dpa, 5 September 2015 The English service of the biggest German news agency has a quoted from AAN’s latest dispatch on Musa Qala, by Thomas Ruttig, on the (drug) economic mportance of the district “The (Musa Qala) district centre hosts a major drug bazaar at the heart of Helmand’s poppy production area,” said Thomas Ruttig, […]
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The National, 2 September 2015 The Dubai-based daily quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman on the now suspended Murree talks: The Murree talks were intended “to create enough momentum, so that those in Qatar and elsewhere jump in”, a Kabul-based western diplomat who know why the US supports the talks, told Borhan Osman, a researcher with the […]
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Tageszeitung, 31 August 2015 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the fall and recapture of symbolic Musa Qala district in Helmand. Behind it he sees a (continued) Taleban strategy to slowly gain territory in peripheral areas and lead a war of attrition, hoping that the government comes under pressure with the shrinking of external aid.
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Dagens Nyheter, 27 August 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in the Swedish daily as saying: Vad har då talibanerna för motiv till att återgå till våldet? Kate Clark, tidigare BBC-korrespondent i Afghanistan och numera anställd på det Kabulbaserade analysföretaget Afghanistan Analysts Network, lutar åt att upptrappningen är ett försök att visa styrka utåt och […]
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Hankyoreh 21, 19 August 2015 The South Korean journal gives an appraisal of the security situation in Afghanistan, with quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig. Apart from the IS, the triple bombs in Kabul and the peace process after Mullah Omar’s death are scrutinised.
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Kashmir Watch, 18 August 2015 In this article-cum-opinion piece, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted: ‘The attacks on Friday, which included a massive truck bomb in a heavily populated civilian area and a suicide attack on a police academy, were some of the most serious in months and the first in Kabul since the Taliban named […]
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