Eurasianet/The Bug Pit (blog), 6 January 2015 The discussion about an alleged IS presence in Afghanistan is heating up – or, more precisely, being heated up by Russia, through a long Russian-language interview by its special Afghanistan envoy Zamir Kabulov. Eurasianet comments on it and refers to Borhan Osman’s AAN dispatch.
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Stars and Stripes, 5 January 2015 “In key areas, health care in Afghanistan has undeniably improved since the Taliban regime was toppled 13 years ago. But some highly touted gains may have been overstated, and others are at risk as international militaries pull out of the country and aid organizations scale back their efforts” writes […]
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Global Post, 1 January 2015 AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted here at length.
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tageszeitung, 29 December 2014 Op-ed comment by AAN’sThomas Ruttig on the occasion of the end of the ISAF mission: The end of ISAF leaved the Afghans a series of problems, some new, some exacerbated versions of old ones: among them the economic crisis that emerges now, with the ISAF-induced growth collapsing, and the continuing war […]
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Radio Bremen, 29 December 2014 Audio of a short interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig at the end of the ISAF mission (in German).
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Deutsche Welle, 27 December 2014 German international radio, in its year-ender, quotes, among others, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: “The ISAF mission hasn’t solved the main problem in Afghanistan,” said Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the “Afghan Analyst Network” based in Kabul and Berlin. “The war is not over yet, dismantling the Taliban came to nothing, insurgences have […]
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Schwäbische Zeitung, 24 December 2014 Op-ed by AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig in this southern German daily, about the 2015 prospects for Afghanistan: The optimism after the establishment of the national unity government starts fading, with a dangerous economic crisis looming and developmental gains eaten up by the security situation that is not improving.
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The American Conservative, 23 December 2014 Reporting, among other things, about Secretary Kerry’s role in brokering the government of national unity, the author says: “For a deeper dive into the details, see the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network’s take.)” The longer sequences from Martine van Bijlert’s dispatch follow: According to Martine van Bijlert at AAN, “Ghani and Abdullah […]
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Neues Deutschland, 22 December 2014 The Berlin-based daily reprints shortened versions of my (German language) November 2014 impressions from Kabul, from my website Afghanistan Zhaghdablai, here and here (subscribers only).
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Voice of America, 22 December 2014 On its website, the US government radio, in its preview on Afghanistan’s 2015 challenges, extensively quotes AAN’s Kate Clark on the working relationship in the government of national unity and the general situation: “We have got the [political] transition, we have got the two men in place. They strive […]
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The Observer, 20 December 2014 The Guardian’s former Afghanistan correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison – now the daily’s diplomatic correspondent – is back with a piece about Afghanistan: about the fact that, with the closure of the US-run prison in Bagram, former CIA ‘ghost prisosers’ “whose treatment set the torture template in the agency’s notorious Salt Pit … […]
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RBB-Inforadio, 20 December 2014 Listen to a 38-minutes interview (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, drawing a balance of the now ending ISAF mission – covering security, development, terrorism and the insurgency. Also available as a podcast, here.
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