Stars and Stripes, 10 September 2019 AAN’s Obaid Ali is quoted here on the Taleban recruiting non-Pashtuns in northern and northeastern Afghanistan: “It’s a new generation, run by locals,” said Obaid Ali, analyst for Afghanistan Analysts Network, in a phone interview. “There are no longer people coming from the south to serve as shadow governors […]
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NRC, 10 September 2019 “It is in everyone’s interest to continue talking to the Taleban” – interview with AAN co-founder Martine van Bijlert in the Dutch daily. She says she doesn’t think that this was “the definite end of the talks” and that they can be resumed. The alternative for the US “is continuation of the […]
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SRF4, 10 September 2019 Radio interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) on Swiss Radio, saying that the President Trump’s cancellation of the Taleban talks was a catastrophe as peace for Afghans will be pushed into the far future, the a new start for talks might be far away and both sides in the war […]
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dpa/Tagesspiegel, 10 September 2019 The Berlin-based daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the new fighting in several Afghan provinces as a result of the cancelled US-Taleban deal (in German): Dem Afghanistan-Experten Thomas Ruttig von der Denkfabrik Afghanistan Analysts Network zufolge ist als Folge des Abbruchs der USA-Taliban-Gespräche mit einem Anstieg der Gewalt zu rechnen. „Die Alternative zu Verhandlungen ist Krieg“, […]
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Spiegel online, 9 September 2019 Quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on Trump calling off the Taleban deal in the online version of the leading German news magazine: Für die Menschen in Afghanistan ist das Scheitern der Gespräche eine schlechte Nachricht: “Beide Seiten werden wohl den Krieg nun weiter eskalieren”, prophezeit Thomas Ruttig, Co-Direktor des Afghanistan […]
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Guardian, 9 September 2019 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in the British daily from her latest dispatch: “What looks to be the failure of these particular talks makes a negotiated end to the war, for now, less likely,” wrote Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network.
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Ö1 (ÖRF), 9 September 2019 Interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on Trump’s cancellation of the Taleban agreement (audio in German)
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NDR, 5 September 2019 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is one of the participants of this hour-long panel called “Redezeit” (Speaking time) on German public radio, discussing the Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan and other countries and its consequences. Wofür steht die Bundeswehr im Verteidigungsbündnis Nato? Wie ist das Verhältnis der deutschen Bevölkerung zu den Soldaten und ihren […]
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Deutsche Welle, 4 September 2019 Full interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the 10th anniversary of an German airstrike in Kunduz province that led to the killing of many civilians (in German).
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Frankfurter Rundschau, 4 September 2019 In an analysis of the situation before the expected (but now called off) US-Taleban deal, an AAN analysis by Thomas Ruttig and Martine von Bijlert is quoted: „Es scheint, die USA haben ihre Position ,Nichts ist vereinbart, bis alles vereinbart ist‘ und die Forderung nach einem umfassenden Waffenstillstand fallengelassen“, schreiben […]
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La Croix, 3 September 2019 The French daily examines what is known so far of the US-Taleban deal on Afghanistan, quoting – among others – AAN research by Thomas Ruttig and Martine van Bijlert: Américains et talibans avaient dessiné, dès janvier 2019, les grands traits d’un accord limité autour de deux principes : le retrait des troupes […]
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Gandhara, 2 September 2019 A short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on RFE/RL’s Gandhara website about the still pending US-Taleban withdrawal agreement: Thomas Ruttig, a former UN and EU diplomat and co-founder of the Afghanistan Analyst [sic] Network, a Kabul-based think tank, says Afghans are divided over the issue. “It might be the ‘best outcome’ […]
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