Il Manifesto, 5 March 2020 The leftwing Italian daily quotes AAN’s Ehsan Qaane on the ICC decision to finally start war crimes investigations in Afghanistan (there is also an English version of this article, here): L’accordo tra Stati uniti e Talebani rischia di sotterrare una volta per tutte le rivendicazioni di giustizia degli afghani. «L’ultima […]
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Security Distillery, 4 March 2020 An entry in this blog produced ‘by students for students’ quotes AAN’s Kate Clark via The Guardian: As Kate Clark, the co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, points out, a withdrawal of US troops might tip the military balance in the Taliban’s favour.
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al-Jazeera, 3 March 2020 AAN’s Obaid Ali is quoted on the disputed Afghan government-Taliban prisoners exchange and remarks of Pakistan’s foreign minister Qureshi on the subject: Obaid Ali, an analyst at Afghanistan Analyst Network, said: “What Qureshi said is not relevant. This is an issue that is at the discretion of the Afghan government. It’s […]
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ara.cat, 3 March 2020 A quoted from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Catalan daily’s analysis of the US-Taleban agreement signed in Doha on 29 February: “Els EUA no s’han preocupat en cap moment durant les negociacions de què passarà amb la població afganesa en el futur”, adverteix Thomas Ruttig, codirector d’Afghanistan Analysts Network, un dels […]
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El País, 1 March 2020 In reporting about the Afghan week of ‘reduction in violence’, the Spanish daily quotes an Afghan voice from a compilation on the AAN website: La firma ha sido posible tras la “reducción de la violencia” (ni siquiera se ha llamado tregua) de la pasada semana que los afganos han vivido […]
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Tageszeitung, 29 February 2020 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig takes a first look at the US-Taleban agreement signed today in Doha and the US-Afghan joint declaration issued in Kabul (in German): Das Abkommen soll auch innerafghanische Friedensgespräche möglich machen, um den jahrelangen Krieg in dem Land zu beenden. (…) Die Regierung in Kabul wird beim US-Sicherheitsrat offiziell beantragen, […]
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The Guardian, 29 February 2020 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here on the US-Taleban agreements, with some skepticism whether the Taleban might be really willing to negotiate peace: “There are warning signs. Some of the Taliban social media accounts are quite jubilant about this ‘win’, as they see it,” said Kate Clark, co-director of the […]
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Die Welt (online), 29 February 2020 Op-ed by AAN#s Thomas Ruttig in the conservative German daily, looking at the US-Taleban agreement, the positions of the Taleban and in the population (in German, but behind a paywall).
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The Daily Telegraph, 29 February 2020 In this portrait of the US chief envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, there are a few quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: It was here that America and Mr Khalilzad made critical mistakes which would come to badly undermine nation-building efforts, said Thomas Ruttig, director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, […]
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Plus, 29 February 2020 A quoted from on the Czech news website: Tyto rozhovory mají vyřešit i oba největší problémy – trvalé příměří a rozdělení moci v Afghánistánu. Absence řešení těchto témat v dohodě ukazuje, že vlastně nejde o dohodu mírovou, upozorňuje analytik Thomas Ruttig. Ten je přesvědčený, že Tálibán na mír a klid zbraní nepřistoupí […]
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Tagesspiegel, 29 February 2020 A number of quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this analysis in the Berlin daily of Afghanistan’s situation at the time of the signing of the US-Taleban deal (in German): Hinzu kommen die militärischen Opfer. „Das Verhältnis der Toten ist etwa eins zu zwei bis drei“, schätzt der Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig, […]
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Los Angeles Times, 28 February 2020 AAN’s Ali Yawar Adili is quoted on the envisaged intra-Afghan peace talks: Despite the upheaval [about the disputed release of 5,000 Taleban prisoners], Afghans are somewhat optimistic about the prospects for peace, said Ali Adili, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, which monitors the country closely. “There has […]
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