AFP/Daily Star, 12 April 2015 After an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan video purportedly showing the IS-style beheading of a former Afghan soldier was published online and reports of a local IMU commander pledging support to the Islamic State, AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted with comments on the IMU-Taleban-IS relationship: The video marks something of a departure […]
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Outlook India, 8 April 2015 The renowned Indian magazine, scrutinising an alleged pro-IS turn of the IMU and a video published by the organisation, quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman: The video marks something of a departure for IMU, said Borhan Osman, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul. “It used to operate in coordination […]
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Helsingborgs Dagblad, 7 April 2015 The Swedish daily reports about the follow-up to the killing of the young woman, Farkhunda, in Kabul and quotes AAN’s Martine van Bijlert: Mordet har också satt strålkastaren på ett korrupt rättssystem samtidigt som det väcker frågor om vad ett islamiskt samhälle egentligen innebär, enligt Martine van Bijlert på Afghanistan […]
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Los Angeles Times, 1 April 2015 Another quote of AAN’s Borhan Osman on IS in Afghanistan/Pakistan: Islamic State’s “declaration of a move into ‘Khorasan’ may have been over-hasty,” Borhan Osman of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based research group, wrote in a recent commentary. “Afghanistan and Pakistan are a long way from the group’s heartland […]
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The Rolling Stone, 26 March 2015 In an article on the Us discussion about ex-Taleban prisoner and accused deserter Bowe Bergdahl, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted on the five Taleban prisoners against which Bergdahl was swapped: Bergdahl was traded for five Taliban figures of varying importance. “Of the five, four were high-ranking Taleban officials, while […]
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The Foreigner (Norway), 26 March 2015 AAN country director Kate Clark comments on the invitation by Norwegian authorities of three Taleban members together with representatives of the Afghan government for a peace seminar at Oslo for a peace negotiations course, looking also at ceasefire agreements: “I think reports of the Taliban having attended the seminar are credible,” Kate Clark, […]
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Dagbladet, 25 March 2015 The Norwegian daily also picks up the story of Taleban (and Kabul government) representatives taking part in a peace building course in Oslo organised by the Norwegian government – with a quote of AAN’s Kate Clark: Interessant. Hvis Taliban og afghanske myndigheter var på dette kurset, er det fascinerende, sier Kate […]
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Aftenposten, 24 March 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in the Norwegian daily about the lynching of an Afghan women in Kabul that sparked widespread protests: Vold, overgrep og undertrykking er en del av hverdagen til afghanske kvinner, og det vil ta lang tid før situasjonen blir bedre, mener journalist og analytiker Kate Clark. – […]
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ABC Nyheter (Norway), 24 March 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark about possible peace negotiations and Norway’s role.
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Deutschlandradio-Kultur, 21 March 2015 Full transcript plus audio of an interview (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the killing of a young woman – who allegedly had burnt a Quran, an accusation later denied by the ministry of religious affairs – by a lynch mob. That the police did not do its job, and […]
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Jamestown Terrorism Monitor, 20 March 2015 Finally, a non-alarmist analysis of the IS threat emanating from Afghanistan to Central Asia, by Ryskeldi Satke, Casey Michel and Sertac Canalp Korkmaz, which also quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: At present, the threat from Islamist extremism in Central Asia appears significantly more modest than is painted by both regional […]
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The American Conservative, 20 March 2015 “To fight the Taliban, the United States created a new generation of abusive strongmen that are now running rampant”, the article says and refers to the latest under-covered HRW watch report. “What has been put into this (HRW) report, everyone knew for years,” said Thomas Ruttig, a co-director of […]
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