AWNA and Ravi Zan, 4 May 2026 In two news items, the Afghan Women’s News Agency (AWNA) and Ravi Zan news agency summarise AAN’s latest report by Hamed Pakteen, the former titled “Practising Law Under the Emirate: Afghan defence lawyers fight for space in a transformed justice system.”
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Kabul Tribune, 3 May 2026 In this news item, the diaspora-based Afghan publication summarises AAN’s latest report by Hamed Pakteen, titled “Practising Law Under the Emirate: Afghan defence lawyers fight for space in a transformed justice system.” Also the blog of the IAPL Monitoring Committee on Attacks on Lawyers picks up this AAN report.
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Pajhwok Afghan News and others, 10 April 2026 The independent Afghan news agency summarises AAN’s recent report “Afghans in the UK: Uncertain times ahead”, saying that “Afghans without permanent residency in the United Kingdom are facing prolonged insecurity and serious challenges due to the tightening of the country’s immigration policies.” In a report released yesterday, […]
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Tageszeitung, 6 April 2026 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at the (non-) reaction of the German government on media reports that a Taleban diplomat has factually taken over the Afghan embassy in Berlin, despite another diplomat – still an appointee of the Islamic Republic – officially in charge. Infact, he concludes, the German government has tacitly […]
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Kabul Tribune, 24 March 2026 In this news item, the Australia-based online media summarises the main findings ans conclusions of AAN’s latest research, about radio-based education becoming a key alternative for Afghan girls who lost access to formal schooling following restrictions imposed in 2021.
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Qantara, 23 March 2026 This article on the German Middle East focussed website by Jan Ritter analyses the new Taleban penal code, quoting from Kate Clark’s AAN analysis of the document and quoting AAN’s Thomas Ruttig. It emphasises that [a]ccording to an analysis by Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), the new penal […]
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Spiegel, 19 March 2026 The leading German news magazine interviews AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the recent Pakistani airstrike on a Kabul drug rehabilitation clinic, while Pakistan insists that it hit a military target. He says that news reports from the attack site suggest that this is an attempt to cover up what might amount to […]
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Tageszeitung, 17 March 2026 For the Berlin-based daily newspaper, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig reports the results of the Pakistani airstrike that hit a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul and provides background on the centre itself and the war of words around the strike.
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BBC Dari, 11 March 2026 AAN’s Kate Clark is one quoted in the report: Kate Clark, a British journalist who was a BBC correspondent in Kabul from 1999 to 2002 and is currently one of the directors of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, tells her story of that period as follows: “I was lucky enough to […]
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Opinio Juris, 10 March 2026 In this commentary with the self-explanatory title, the authors quote a recent AAN report: As the Afghanistan Analysts Network explains, “[t]hroughout the Code, it addresses men. Women are almost invisible unless the regulation concerns what is done to them. In that case, they might be looked at, asked after, beaten, cursed, […]
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Drop Site News, 5 March 2026 In this analysis about the Pakistan-Afghan war, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted with his view on the – for Pakistan – surprising flip in the bilateral relationship between both regimes: “How much Pakistan’s stance toward the Taliban has shifted is reflected in a statement from its Foreign Ministry last […]
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Spiegel, 2 March 2026 Also, the leading German news magazine, Der Spiegel, refers to AAN’s translation of the Taleban panel code in a short analysis of the document: Ein afghanischer Mann muss 15 Tage im Gefängnis verbringen, wenn er seiner Frau den Arm oder das Bein bricht. Wenn er einen Hund oder ein Schaf misshandelt, […]
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