The Australian, 20 March 2015 A short quote by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the assassination of Uruzgan police chief and ‘strongman’ Matiullah in Kabul: Thomas Ruttig from the Afghan Analyst’s Network said his assassination reflected a possible weakening of Karzai’s once-all powerful Popalzai tribe (to which Khan belonged). (I also said, but this was not […]
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CTC Sentinel, 19 March 2015 In another analysis of IS inroads in the AfPak region, Don Rassler from the Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy at West Point quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman several times: As noted by researcher Borhan Osman, the challenges ISK has faced in setting up shop in Afghanistan are best reflected […]
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RFE/RL, 17 March 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig took part in a radio panel discussing IS sightings in Afghanistan, which the organiser – RFE/RL – introduces as following: “The black flag of the Islamic State (IS) militant group has reportedly been raised in areas of northern Afghanistan, just south of the border with Central Asia.” Thomas […]
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al-Jazeera, 16 March 2015 In the run-up to Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani’s visits to the US next week, this article looks at the situation of non-Afghan prisoners handed over by the US to Afghanistan with the end of the ISAF mission. AAN’s Kare Clark is quoted: But inheriting Parwan prisoners has put the Afghan government in a […]
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MO, 16 March 2015 This article of the Belgian website’s editor-in-chief quotes extensively from two AAN sources, by Thomas Ruttig and Philipp Münch: “Eind 2013 schreef de Duitse onderzoeker Thomas Ruttig: ‘Volgens officiële Afghaanse bronnen staan slechts 5 van de 416 districtcentra onder permanente controle van de taliban, maar in vele andere reikt de greep […]
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The Guardian, 14 March 2015 Leaving Guardian Kabul correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison’s sobering valedictory article. She links to the AAN dispatch on the jailing of a well-known Afghan photographer in “a murky years-old case.”
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oneworld.nl, 10 March 2015 The Dutch humanitarian website, in an article on the UN-SC resolution 1325 (on women and peace and security and the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, peace negotiations, peace-building, peacekeeping, humanitarian response and in post-conflict reconstruction) quotes AAN researcher Borhan Osman, from his recent presentation in […]
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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 5 March 2015 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the recent HRW report on the generation of human rights violators who – in contrast to the warlords of the 1990s and the communist generals of the 1980s – act in connivance with the West. He also cites examples from the report, including […]
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The News, 4 March 2015 The Pakistani daily tells us nothing new: political horse-trading also exists in developed countries. Strange, though, that the article ends with a para about Afghanistan – but at least, it quotes AAN on how voters are mobilised in Afghanistan: “The “Reuters” had also quoted a researcher at the “Afghanistan Analyst […]
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Information, 2 March 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted extensively in this article by the Danish daily about the West’s continuing war in Afghanistan, after combat troops were officially withdrawn: »Krigen er på ingen måde slut for Vesten,« konstaterer Thomas Ruttig, leder af det uafhængige ekspertnetværk Afghanistan Analyst Network […]. »Tværtimod fortsætter den med uformindsket […]
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The Guardian, 2 March 2015 The British daily’s Kabul correspondent reports about the stresses on the Afghan higher education system, briefly quotes Obaid Ali from his AAN dispatch on the kankur, the university entry examination, and uses some more details AAN found, unfortunately out without crediting us. Obaid Ali, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts […]
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The Sunday Times, 1 March 2015 AAN is quoted here … but the quote is behind a pay wall…
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