Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2015 The Monitor quotes itself quoting an AAN report, about the success or lack of of kill-or-capture operations: The Christian Science Monitor wrote last year: Throughout the Afghan war, the US conducted capture-kill operations, missions designed to target key militant leaders. Such operations were most commonly used under US […]
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Lettera43, 22 June 2015 The Italian online daily quotes AAN author Fabrizio Foschini in a report about the Taleban attack on parliament in Kabul, saying this constituted part of a campaign to defend “hegemony” in the Afghan jihad: “È la prosecuzione della scia di sangue del gruppo terroristico e della ‘offensiva di primavera’, la campagna […]
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Hasht-e Sobh, 20 June 2015 The Kabul-based daily writes about corruption in the Ministry of Education and mostly talked about the SIGAR report about former minister Faruq Wardak’s involvement in it. In the middle of the article, it is said that AAN released a report on corruption in the education field when Wardak was still the […]
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Stars and Stripes, 19 June 2015 In this report about the Taleban warning letter to the Islamic State, AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted: “It is difficult to imagine enthusiasm for (Islamic State) emerging among common Afghans. However, tribal grievances towards the Taliban in communities which are not under government control could help (Islamic State) recruiters to […]
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The Diplomat, 19 June 2015 Catherine Putz, Special Projects Editor at The Diplomat, a international current-affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific region, reviews Noah Arjomand’s AAN report about ‘double government‘ by foreign interveners during the First Anglo-Afghan War and nowadays: So what can be learned? Arjomand is careful not to dismiss the reformist goals of such double governments, but he aims […]
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 June 2015 In an article analysing the Taleban letter to IS (Daesh), the German daily quotes AAN information about Mullah Mansur Dadullah and his possible alignment with the IS: Nach Informationen der Denkfabrik „Afghanistan Analysts Network“ hatte er sich aber später mit den Taliban überworfen. Seinen Namen hatten afghanische Politiker jüngst im […]
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Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015 This extensive article reviews the “unexpected strides toward [peace] talks” over the past few months, made by Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban and argues that “the United States must seize the moment, doing what it can to move the peace process forward.” It quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: “If the […]
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Afterposten, 16 June 2016 The Norwegian daily reports about a meeting, at Oslo Forum, that includes Taleban and what it calls “Afghan minorities” representatives. It quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: Likevel er møtet på Losby Gods nyttig, mener den tyske analytikeren Thomas Ruttig, meddirektør i den uavhengige forskningsgruppen Afghanistan Analysts Network. – Dette er ikke samtaler, […]
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Tageszeitung, 13 June 2015 Op-ed (in German) by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the track II meetings organised by the non-governmental Pugwash Conference between Taleban members and politicians and civil society members from Kabul. He argues that the ‘Kabul side’ was much less prepared for the talks then the Taleban, result of the blockade of any […]
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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 12 June 2015 An op-ed article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the statement by Afghanistan’s new mining minister Daud Shah Saba that puts in question one of the most important economic projects of the country, the Chinese exploitation of a copper mine near Kabul – and might have negative repercussions on China’s role […]
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Deutschlandfunk, 2 June 2015 The German public radio station’s website publishes an article – mainly based on a transcribed interview – with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about tendencies of radicalisation among Afghan students. AAN’s Borhan Osman is also quoted.
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Just Security, 29 May 2015 The security blog has a link to Kate Clark’s bio of Afghan defence minister candidate Masum Stanakzai at its news roundup for 29 May.
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