Ettela’at-e Ruz, 13 May 2015 (23 Saur 1394) AAN’s Qayoom Suroush reviews Muhammad Qasem Wafaizada’s book “Siayatwarzi-ye qaumi wa bena-ye solh dar Afghanistan” (Ethnic Politics and Peace Building in Afghanistan), originally published in English by the Heinrich Boell Foundastion in Germany and now out in Dari, for the Kabul daily.
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Augengeradeaus.net, 11 May2015 The German military- and Afghanistan watch blog links to AAN’s recent Kunduz dossier.
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Reuters, 10 May 2015 The dispatch of AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted here, referring to civil society and other protests that also attacked the Muslim clergy in the context of the lynching of a young Kabul woman: “These episodes have angered the mullahs (clerics) and I can see they are now drawing a line between […]
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AFP, 8 May 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark again as a voice of caution on the above: “Just because they are foreign fighters does not mean they are Daesh,” she told AFP. “I’m sceptical because I can’t see any reason why the Taliban would want to fight alongside Daesh. We need to see more evidence to […]
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De Morgen, 8 May 2015 In this article in the Belgian newspaper about the relationship between the Taleban and IS in Afghanistan, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted: Het is inderdaad zo dat veel buitenlandse jihadstrijders uit Centraal-Aziatische landen zoals Pakistan en Tjetsjenië er komen vechten, “maar dat wil niet per se zeggen dat het om […]
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The Guardian, 7 May 2015 Reporting on Taleban fears about IS recruitment, this article refers (and links) to an AAN analysis on IS sightings.
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al-Jazeera, 6 May 2015 This op-ed article that warns to draw hasty conclusions about an IS(IL) emergence in Afghanistan – as AAn does – also quotes/links to AAN’s related dispatch about the issue: “In September last year, for example, the alleged killing of scores of people – including beheadings – in Ghazni province by “Daesh […]
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MDR Inforadio, 4 May 2015 Interview (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, unfortunately not online.
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Vestmanlands Läns Tidning, 3 May 2015 AAN’s Naheed Esar also made it into the Sunday’s international news review of this Swedish newspaper: Hoppas på rättvisa för Farkhunda 49 personer, bland dem 19 poliser, står anklagade för inblandning i det brutala mordet på Farkhunda, som lynchades utanför en moské i Kabul. När rättegången inleddes fick de […]
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Hufvudstadsbladet, 3 May 2015 The Finnish newspaper looks at the Farkhunda trial in Kabul and quotes AAN’s Naheed Esar: Det faktum att polis och andra högt uppsatta tjänstemän faktiskt förts till rätten tyder på ett visst mått av rättvisa och inte särskilt mycket korruption, enligt Naheed Esar som är analytiker och researcher på Afghanistan Analysts Network. Och […]
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Deutsche Welle, 30 April 2015 Also in German, here. Reporting that the next level of jurisdiction in Germany has rejected compensation claims of family members of Afghans killed during an air strike in Kunduz in September 2009, maintaining that the German commander responsible had not neglected duty (as, as the court says, he could not […]
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The Diplomat, 29 April 2015 The IS issue also comes up in today’s article debating the Taleban spring offensive: again, an AAN dispatch is quoted: “… the Afghan[istan] Analysts Network cautions that IS “has been prominent in Afghanistan largely on social media and in reports by the media and Afghan officials.”
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