El País, 21 December 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in the leading Spanish daily on the purported Trump plan to drastically reduce US troops in Afghanistan: “No sé si [Khalilzad] lo sabía, pero no creo que le agrade que Trump debilite su posición en medio de las conversaciones”, declara a EL PAÍS Thomas Ruttig, […]
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Deutsche Welle, 21 December 2018 Another quote by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the English service of the German public foreign broadcaster on Trump’s reported plans of a troop reduction in Afghanistan: “If the US actually goes ahead with the troop reduction plan, it would be a manifestation of Trump’s ‘America First’ policy,” Thomas Ruttig, an […]
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RFE/RL, 21 December 2018 A quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, next to Kabul analyst Haroun Mir, former Afghan deputy foreign minister Omar Samad, ICG’s Graeme Smith and others, on the reported Trump plan of a heavy partial troops withdrawal from Afghanistan: “This makes no strategical sense, as it weakens the U.S.’s own position and that […]
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Tageszeitung, 21 December 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig writes about the outcome of the US-Taleban (and others’) talks in Abu Dhabi: “no breakthrough” and peace “still far out of sight” (in German).
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RFE/RL, 16 December 2018 In this short portrait of Zabul province, AAN’s Ali Muhammad Sabawoon is extensively quoted about reasons for the local populations’ Taleban sympathies recorded by an Asia Foundation poll: Ali Mohammad Sabawoon, a researcher at the Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent think tank in Kabul, says there are several reasons why there is […]
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Tageszeitung, 7 December 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig reports about the Afghan election complaints commission (ECC) cancelling all Kabul votes of the 20-21 October parliamentary elections, toppling the country into new crisis (in German). He describes the Independent Election Commission, but also says that the ECC had let pass suspicious results from other provinces without taking […]
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TRT World, 5 December 2018 AAN’s Obaid Ali is quoted here extensively about a planned law to legalise (or bring under the law) illegale armed groups, although this is still an unlaid egg: “The National Security Council has not made a decision whether to legalise militias or not. It’s actually not finalised. There is an […]
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BBC, 2 December 2018 This article by the BBC Reality Check team, after the attack on the British security company G4S in Kabul, cites research by Fabrizio Foschini for AAN: Foreign security firms were also allowed to re-register as a risk management company. This allowed many companies to keep a footing in the security business, wrote […]
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Los Angeles Times and Stars & Stripes, 2 December 2018 This article on the Taleban’s military successes in Ghazni province quotes from AAN research: As early as 2015, shortly after the last U.S. forces left Ghazni province under a NATO drawdown, the Taliban controlled more territory there than the Afghan government did, according to the […]
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Neues Deutschland, 29 November 2018 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about Afghan president Ghani’s peace proposals introduced at the international Afghanistan conference in Geneva in the German daily (in German, behind a paywall). Full text here.
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Deutschlandfunk, 27 November 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this article about the Geneva Afghanistan conference by the German public broadcaster (radio): Thomas Ruttig, der Co-Direktor der Nichtregierungsorganisation Afghanistan Analysts Network, sieht in dieser Situation sogar den Weg des Landes zur Demokratie gefährdet: „Wir haben ja gerade Parlamentswahlen hinter uns und wir haben immer […]
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Politiken, 26 November 2018 The Danish daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this article about US-Taleban talks: Den tyske ekspert Thomas Ruttig fra netværket Afghan [sic] Analysts Network er netop kommet hjem fra Afghanistan, hvor bekymringerne over USAs forhandlinger med Taleban er stigende. »Alle i Kabul frygter, at de kommer til at stå uden amerikanske […]
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