The Economist, 24 January 2019 In an article looking at the candidates’ constellation for Afghanistan’s July 2019 presidential election, the weekly quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig as saying: “I do not see any clear newcomer those who want real change can connect with,” says Thomas Ruttig of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a research group. (You might […]
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Jungle World, 17 January 2019 An analysis of Trump’s threat of a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the German left-wing German weekly (in German),
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Jamestown Terrorism Monitor, 11 January 2019 This rather weak and outdated analysis uses some information from the AAN website about a militia in Helmand and its (now assassinated) founded Jabbar Qahraman (and is also badly edited, as it writes our organisation in two different versions).
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SRF 4 (Swiss radio), 10 January 2018 Interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about a New York Times report on CIA-linked Afghan militias and torture. He says that there have been consistent reports of abuses by such units but little legal consequences; and that the role of militias has grown under Trump (in German). It is […]
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Blättchen, 1/2019 (7 January 2019) AAN’s Thomas Ruttig provided an article on the possible fallout of Trump’s much-discount hint he might reduce US troops in Afghanistan for the German online political magazine (in German).
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AFP/Daily Sabah and RTL, 1 January 2019 The news agency tries a look ahead into the new year 2019 and Afghanistan, with quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, among others, on 2018: “It was a very bad year, the situation has not improved at all,” said Thomas Ruttig, co-director of Afghanistan Analysts Network. (…) Ruttig said Washington […]
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Christian Science Monitor, and MSN News 31 December 2018 Quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this article – who thinks the headline should better read ‘Is it safe at home for forced Afghans?’The article itself correctly mentions “questions about the ethics of sending migrants back to an active war zone.” The article is behind a […]
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National Public Radio (online), 30 December 2018 In a look back at three assassinations in Afghanistan in 2018, AAN material is used and linked on General Razeq in Kandahar.
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Tagesspiegel (online), 26 December 2018 Quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin-based daily newspaper on the (still officially unconfirmed) reports that President Trump is planning a partial troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Thomas pointed out that the Taleban control more territory and population than ever since 2001 and that the implementation of the step could […]
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Tageszeitung, 24 December 2018 Op-ed commentary by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin daily, about the purported Trump decision on a partial US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan: “First, the withdrawal from the Kurdish areas of Syria where the Kurds will be thrown to the wolves of Assad and Erdogan, and now Afghanistan. (…) It doesn’t happen for […]
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Telepolis, 22 December 2018 This compilation of a year-end analysis of Afghanistan by the German news website used a number of quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and his analysis on his German website Afghanistan Zhaghdablai (all in German): Soweit geht die in vielerlei Beziehung präzisere und auf die afghanische Wirklichkeit bezogene Analyse des deutschen Afghanistankenners […]
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Hankook Ilbo and Daum, 22 December 2018 Quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Korean daily, with respect to the role of private security contractors in Afghanistan: “..하지만 카불 소재 싱크탱크 ‘아프간 분석 네트워크’의 선임연구원 토마스 루티그는 “극단적으로 위험하다”고 잘라 말한다. 그는 기자에게 보낸 이메일 답변에서 “만일 프린스의 계획이 실행에 옮겨진다면 아프간 전쟁은 이윤추구의 장이 되고, […]
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