Tageszeitung, 29 April 2015 Op-ed commentary by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, accompanying the Kunduz fighting article. He argues that Germany, at least indirectly, has contributed to the mistakes that have led to the Taleban’s latest advances: first by rejecting, over many years, that there was a war ongoing in Kunduz and Afghanistan which allowed the Taleban, […]
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Tageszeitung, 29 April 2015 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, summarising the Taleban attacks in Kabul (and fighting elsewhere) following their recent announcement of their spring offensive. He writes that the government forces were apparently taken by surprise – which surprises itself, as they should have been warned, nit only by the offensive’s announcement, but […]
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CA-News, 28 April 2015 The Russian-language Central Asian news website based in Kyrghyzstan, in an article about Uzbekistan strengthening its border defences, quotes AAN on a fact which doesn’t originate with us – that Uzbekistan has the longest Afghan border of all-post-Soviet countries in Central Asia: По данным независимой некоммерческой организации «Сеть аналитиков Афганистана» (Afghanistan […]
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The Diplomat, 28 April 2015 Discussing, among other points, the role of IS in Afghanistan, this article says: Not all, however, are as convinced of the ISIS threat in Afghanistan. Last week Kate Clark of the Afghan[istan] Analysts Network published an excellent in-depth examination of the Jalalabad attacks — which the Taliban denied and the […]
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RIA Novosti, 28 April 2015 Now also the official Russian news agency quotes AAN on the length of the Afghan-Uzbek border, as if we are the only source for this. But thanks anyway…
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Reuters, 22 April 2015 Cautioning voices are on the rise on the alleged involvement of the IS in the recent Jalalabad terrorist attack. ,”Afghan officials and NATO forces in Afghanistan said they doubted that a recent suicide attack on the eastern city of Jalalabad was the work of an offshoot Islamic State, the Islamist militant […]
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Tageszeitung, 20 April 2015 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin daily covering the parliament’s positive vote on 16 of the 17 remaining cabinet members and the IS claim for the Jalalabad terror attack. Finally, governing Afghanistan can start now, almost seven months after the Ghani/Abdullah government coming to power.
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Tageszeitung, 20 April 2015 Op-ed commentary in the Berlin daily by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, discussing the likelihood that the IS claim for responsibility for Saturday’s terror attack in Jalalabad is accurate. He writes that, over the past 13 years, militant groups in various instances have claimed attacks they did not commit or denied responsibility despite […]
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 19 April 2015 The most influential Swiss daily writes about the IS claim for the 18 April terror attack in Jalalabad and says that “people knowledgable about the scene say that IS so far has not much recruited in the region”, linking to an AAN dispatch.
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The Guardian, 19 April 2015 On the Jalalabad terror attack claimed by IS, AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted with the following comment: Borhan Osman, an analyst with Afghanistan Analysts Network who has tracked the emergence of Isis in Afghanistan, said the group might benefit from frictions within the Taliban. “[Isis] has not built a solid, actual […]
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ARD, 18 April 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark on German Tagesschau prime time news raises some doubts whether the IS is really responsible for today’s bloody suicide attack in Jalalabad, saying that it might just have grabbed the opportunity to claim responsibility, as it needs international attention (with video).
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FAZ, 13 April 2015 In the leading German daily Friederike Böge discusses the pro and cons of the alleged IS spread in Afghanistan, quoting from an AAN dispatch on the – meanwhile killed – deputy IS governor for ‘Khorasan’: Nach einem Bericht der Denkfabrik „Afghanistan Analysts Network“ lag das an der schwachen Stellung seines Stammes […]
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