Human Rights Watch, 13 July 2015 In her HRW dispatch, Patty Gossman reviews this year’s Taleban attacks from the angle of civilian casualties. She concludes that “according to the Afghanistan Analysts Network, the Taliban have a history of denying responsibility for attacks in which large numbers of civilians are killed. That suggests that even the […]
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The Diplomat, 10 July 2015 Katherine Putz, reporting on the de facto (if not yet de jure) closing down of Tajikistan’s only significant opposition party and Central Asia’s only legal Islamist party, quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig when he reported from Tajikistan in 2014 for AAN: “[Helene] Thibault’s [from Registan blog] conclusion, that ‘Islamic radicalism does not […]
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SRF, 9 July 2015 Listen to the audio of an interview on Swiss Radio with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Pakistan-organised first direct talks between the Afghan government and the Taleban (in German) – raising doubts that this is a breakthrough towards peace in Afghanistan.
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Bloomberg, 9 July 2015 A short quote by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this article about China’s and the US’s clout on Afghan peace talks: “The U.S. is gradually disengaging from central Asia, including Afghanistan, while China is on the rise in the region,” said Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network. China’s multi-billion […]
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New York Times, 9 July 2015 AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted in Mujib Mashal’s article: “The Pakistani military, which has sheltered the Taliban’s leadership for years, redoubled its pressure on the insurgents to come to the table. As a result, some Taliban commanders began fleeing Pakistan, said Borhan Osman, a researcher at the Afghan Analysts […]
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Tageszeitung, 8 July 2015 In the Berlin daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig reports about and analyses the Pakistan-hosted first official direct talks between the Afghan government and the Taleban (in German). He writes that there were some unclarities linked to the talks, first of all whether the Taleban representatives were authorised to take part by their […]
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Deutsche Welle, 8 July 2015 Full interview with AAN’s Borhan Osman on the English programme of Germany’s official overseas radio station. He says, for example: “Afghanistan’s northern neighbors and China worry too much about a possible IS threat that makes them translate the security deterioration into an imminent IS threat. (…) China is possibly more worried […]
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Deutsche Welle, 8 July 2015 (also on DW Dari and Pashto) AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here on the Afghan-Taleban talks (not “high-level” yet) in Pakistan: “Thomas Ruttig, co-director and co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, warned of a rivalry between those Taliban in favor and those against engaging in negotiations with president Ghani’s government […]
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Brisbane Times, 4 July 2015 In a very interesting reportage from Uruzgan, the article discusses the Australian forces’ legacy in that province, and of their backing of local strongman Matiullah (against the practice of their Dutch ‘allies’, quotes AAN’s Martine van Bijlert: “Afghanistan is full of Western-backed strongmen who can be trusted to fight the Taliban. […]
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Frankfurter Rundschau, 26 June 2015 Extensive interview (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, covering a broad array of issues, including the Taleban attack on the Afghan parliament, Taleban-IS relations, the security in general, the strength of the Afghan forces and the situation of aid organisations.
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BBC (Persian service), 25 June 2015 BBC’s Harun Najafizada, writes, based on an interview with AAN’s Borhan Osman: “The Taleban’s sending of letter to IS publicly was out of getting tired with the rise of fighters identifying with IS in the east, especially after the killing of the Taleban’s shadow governor for Nangarhar, which has been […]
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Bild, 24 June 2015 The biggest German tabloid very briefly quotes from an AAN diapatch in a short news item about the situation two years after the Bundeswehr withdrawal from Kunduz: “Die Islamisten kontrollieren bereits 65 Prozent der Gebiete, heißt es in einer Analyse des Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN). Und: ‘Kundus ist Frontlinie.’“
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