Tageszeitung, 18 December 2025 In this op-ed commentary for the Berlin-based German daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at Germany’s last-minute evacuations and simultaneous cancellations of admission permits to hundreds of former Afghan local employees, calling the former an alibi move and the latter “covered moral state failure” (in German): The trust in the protection by […]
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Firstpost, 6 December 2025 In this opinion piece on the Indian news website, the author quotes – among other sources – from recent AAN research: According to interviews and testimonies documented by international and Pakistani media outlets, as well as field reporting by organisations such as the Afghanistan Analysts Network, Afghan farmers who migrated to Balochistan to grow poppy […]
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Tageszeitung, 5 December 2025 In this op-ed article for the Berlin-based daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at the latest twists and turns of Germany’s – now stopped – admission programmes for Afghans under threat by the Taleban regime. In the latest turn, a few days after the Germany interior ministry told a permanent parliamentary committee […]
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Tageszeitung, 4 December 2025 In an op-ed commentary (in German) for the Berlin-based daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig comments on Germany’s ‘deportation offensive’, underpinned by self-declared ‘technical’ contacts with the Taleban regime, the German interior ministry exchanging personnel data with Afghan diplomatic missions in the country which have been staffed by consular officials dispatched by the […]
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نهادهای مدنی مونیخ خواهان رسیدهگی به وضعیت پناهجویان شدند [‘Afghanistan Is Not Safe’: Munich Civil Groups Urge Action on Asylum Seekers’ Situation] Hasht-e Sobh, 19 Aqrab 1404 (10 Nov. 2025) AAN’s co-founder and former co-director Thomas Ruttig is quoted here as saying: توماس روتیگ، بنیانگذار و مدیر پیشین «شبکه تحلیلگران افغانستان (AAN)، چشمانداز سیاسی و […]
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Jungle World, 30 October 2025 In a themed Afghanistan edition of the leftist German weekly, Jungle World, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at how Germany’s current right-centre government prioritises a deportation deal with the Taleban over its official position not to recognise the regime, edging closer to the latter by practical cooperation (in German). The Taleban? […]
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BBC, 29 October 2025 In this episode of the BBC’s Business Daily, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted.
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Tageszeitung, 23 October 2025 In this article for the Berlin-based daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at HRW’s most recent reports about the Taleban’s crack-down on Afghan media and journalists.
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Asia Democracy Chronicles, 20 October 2025 This article, looking at the multiple crises Afghanistan is facing under the Taleban, quotes AAN’s Kate Clark: Kate Clark, co-director of the research organization Afghan [sic] Analyst Network (AAN), explains that under the Republic, Afghanistan’s economy had relied heavily on foreign money — not just aid, but also military […]
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Tageszeitung, 18 October 2025 In his article for the Berlin-based German daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks back at the roller coaster ride Afghans went through after the first province-by-province, than total internet blackout in late September, the Taleban’s surprising about face, after protests from the business community and their own ranks, turning it on again, […]
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National Public Radio, 14 October 2025 In this article, AAN is variously quoted on the context of Taleban (anti-)women politics, including on the junking of a nursing and midwifery course for Afghan women, apparently on the orders of the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada: The move highlighted how “the most ultraconservative bit of the movement […]
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Tageszeitung, 12 October 2025 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig summarises the latest Afghan-Pakistan border fighting and looks at the context: mutual allegations of support of terrorist groups (TTP and ISKP) and the Taleban’s India visit and upgrading of bilateral diplomatic relations (in German).
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