Nunn.Asia, 9 February 2015 The pro-Taleban website carries background information from Borhan Osman’s AAN research on the news of the killing of former Taleban deputy military chief Rauf Khadem, to support their argument that ISIS is only a media phenomenon in Afghanistan: ملي امنیت وايي چې خادم نن سهار مهال د هلمند په کجکي ولسوالۍ کې وژلی […]
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Wiener Zeitung, 6 February 2015 A reportage (in German) about Khatera, a young Afghan woman raped by her own father and her fight for survival, against her own family, the local mullah and corrupt officials. The report quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about corruption in the Afghan judiciary and from Wazhma Samandary’s AAN dispatch about domestic […]
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Christian Science Monitor, 6 February 2015 A short quote of AAN’ Thomas Ruttig, on the efficiency of the US-led capture-or-kill strategy against ‘Taleban leaders’: “There [wa]s not much of an effect except for killing those who are known leaders in the Taliban movement and eliminating possible contacts in the search for a political solution,” says […]
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Wochenzeitung (Zurich), 4 February 2015 Article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig analysing the slow Afghan cabinet building and the socio-economic problems facing the new Afghan government. Read the article, in PDF format, here.
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Journal of the Turkish Weekly, 3 February 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here (via VoA news): Kate Clark of Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network blames the delay on an internal power struggle among Afghanistan’s elite, who wanted either themselves or their people in the Cabinet. President Ghani had insisted the ministers were to have the […]
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JK Alternative Viewpoints, 3 February 2015 Interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig by Giuliano Battiston, an English version of 16 january 2015 the one published in reset.it on (see here).
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Voice of America, 2 February 2015 An article about the cabinet formation dragging on, with a quote of AAN’s Kate Clark: Kate Clark of Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network blames the delay on an internal power struggle among Afghanistan’s elite, who wanted either themselves or their people in the Cabinet. President Ghani had insisted the ministers […]
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Sydney Morning Herald, 1 February 2015 In this piece, following up on the Australian defence minister’s visit, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted (although slightly misquoted – and the request to be corrected has received no answer yet). The article says: Thomas Ruttig of the respected thinktank the Afghanistan Analysts Network, who supports a rethink of […]
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The Week, 27 January 2015 The Week, the weekly to the Global Post, relaunches an article by Jean MacKenzie and Aziz Ahmad Tasal, reflecting on the reports of IS intrusions into the Af-Pak arena, quoting, among others, AAN’s Borhan Osman with a differentiated, cautioning statement. Osman, the authors write, has “debunked many of the myths that […]
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Deutsche Welle, 26 January 2015 Another article about IS sightings in Afghanistan, with a brief – and cautioning quote – of AAN’s Borhan Osman: Borhan Osman, analyst at the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network is skeptical of the reports on “IS” in Afghanistan. “It is too early to judge whether ‘IS’ in Afghanistan is gaining ground.”
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Handelsblatt, 21 January 2015 Philipp Münch’s shorter German version of his January 2015 AAN discussion paper titled “Resolute Support Light” has been published as a guest article in the German economic daily.
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PAP/Gazeta Wyborcza, 20 January 2015 The Polish news agency, reprinted in one of the largest dailies of the country, publishes an article looking at reports of IS appearances in Afghanistan. It also quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, cautioning not take every appearing black flag automatically for that of the IS; considering that some commanders might use […]
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