Guardian, 17 June 2018 A short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on why the Taleban ordered their fighters to return from government-controlled areas on day two of their Eid ceasefire: “Of course the leadership might fear some of them just stay,” said Thomas Ruttig, of the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network (AAN). What was not quoted: […]
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BBC, 7 June 2018. This Afghan Air Force attack on 2 April in north-eastern Kunduz province killed at least 36 people and injured 71, the UN says. Although witnesses said Taliban fighters and senior figures were in the crowd, 30 of those killed were children. Although the Afghan government said the strikes targeted senior Taliban […]
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Wall Street Journal, 30 May 2018 AAN is quoted in this article – but we can’t get behind the paywall.
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Stars and Stripes, 26 May 2018 J.P. Lawrence reports from Kaiserslautern in south-western Germany where, in apartments occupied by US troops during the Cold War, now refugees from Afghanistan live and are offered mental health services by he Red Cross, as refugees suffer from PTSD at rates 15 to 30 times the average. Giving background on reasons […]
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Stars and Stripes, 17 May 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this article about the latest fighting in Farah: The attacks on Farah are similar to Taliban offensives that captured the provincial capital of Kunduz in 2015, said Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. (…) “The Taliban have positioned themselves in Farah […]
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Tageszeitung, 17 May 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at latest reports by the Afghan government, Oxfam and the Swedish Committee on (low) aid effectiveness in Afghanistan, resulting in a poverty rate as high as in 2003, shortly after the fall of the Taleban regime (in German).
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Wiener Zeitung, 17 May 2018 An update by the Vienna-based daily on the controversy around the only Afghanistan “expert” in Austrian asylum cases who has come under fire for his “rosy” picture of the war-torn country, including by a counter-expertise by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German): Für den deutschen Afghanistan-Experten Thomas Ruttig steht jedoch jetzt […]
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Tageszeitung, 17 May 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig reports about the dramatically increased number of Afghans living under the poverty line – 55 per cent, up from 51,4 per cent in 2003, the second year after the Taleban (in German).
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East West, 15 May 2018 In this article in the Italian web-based political magazine about the latest attacks on election installations in Afghanistan, some quotes by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, with a link to and additional quotes from his latest AAN paper on Afghanistan’s political parties: E, ovviamente, i Talebani e gli altri gruppi anti-governativi, che […]
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Tageszeitung, 15 May 2018 Thomas Ruttig’s guest article in the Berlin daily summarises latest events in Farah (in German).
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AFP/The National, 15 May 2018 In this article about the latest Taleban overtake attempt of Farah, AAN is briefly quoted from earlier analysis: In 2017 insurgents tried three times to overrun the capital, according to the Afghanistan Analysts Network. Also in French in Le Point and La Croix.
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Washington Post, 13 May 2018 Article about out-but-not-out Balkh governor AAN, with quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on his struggle for the leadership of Jamiat-e Islami: As Thomas Ruttig of the independent Afghanistan Analysts Network put it, Noor “seems to be the single strongest leader, but other leaders combined together are stronger than him.”
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