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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SRF1, 27 February 2020 Listen to a news feature about the forthcoming signature of the US-Taleban agreement in Doha at the Swiss public broadcaster’s ‘Echo der Zeit’ show, with quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (starting at 4:24min).
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