Tageszeitung, 23 April 2018 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin-based daily about the two latest developments proving that even Kabul is unsafe for deportations of rejected asylum seekers from Europe: an new UNHCR assessment and a ruling of France’s highest asylum court (in German),
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Tageszeitung, 17 April 2018 Op-ed by Thomas Ruttig about the Taleban’s rejection of President Ghani’s offer to participate in the much delayed parliamentary elections planned for October (in German).
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AFP/The National, 15 April 2018 In this article about the start of voter registration for the October 2018 parliamentary polls, AAN’s Ali Yawar Adili is quoted from his latest research: Holding the vote within months of the presidential poll risked “electoral congestion and political chaos”, Afghanistan Analysts Network’s Ali Yawar Adili warned in a report […]
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AFP/Straits Times, 15 April 2018 Reporting the start of voter registration for Afghanistan’s long overdue legislative elections in October, the agency briefly quotes AAN’s Ali Yawar Adili from his dispatch, warning that holding the vote at that point would risk “electoral congestion and political chaos.”
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Los Angeles Times, 11 April 2018 AAN’s Ali Mohammad Sabawoon is quoted twice in this article about rumours that Kandahar police chief Raezq might also be on his way out: Ali Mohammad Sabawoon, a researcher at the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, said there are unconfirmed reports that Ghani has already signed Raziq’s resignation letter. (…) “The security […]
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Reuters, 6 April 2018 A short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this Reuters report about the meeting between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in Kabul, against the backdrop of Pakistani cross-border air strikes in Kunar: Such an incident is a rare departure from the norm of cross-border shelling, said […]
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al-Jazeera, 5 April 2018 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig at the English website of the Qatar-based TV station, saying: … even if a high number of Taliban commanders had been present, and even if they had held a war council there, hiding among civilians – firing at such a crowd does, according to the Geneva Convention, […]
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Stars and Stripes, 29 March 2018 Before the background of US allegations that Russia is arming the Taleban, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here on Russia’s possible intent behind overplaying the role and threat emanating from IS in Afghanistan: Exaggerating the ISIS presence has several aims, according to Thomas Ruttig of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. […]
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Le Monde, 28 March 2018 In this article in the leading Frnech daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted (behind a paywall): Ces franchises, tout comme des groupes sectaires antichiites pakistanais, pourraient par ailleurs s’appuyer sur des réseaux locaux, des « terroristes à louer » en résidence à Kaboul, note le chercheur Thomas Ruttig, de l’Afghanistan […]
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SRF4, 27 March 2018 Listen to AAN’s Thomas Ruttig’s interview with Swiss radio’s rendez-vous show about today’s Afghanistan conference in Tashkent (in German): go to 27 March page and click audio under the headline mentioned above.
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BBC, 23 March 2018 AAN’s Kate Clark induces some doubts in the logic behind US allegations of a close Russia-Taleban collaboration: The Taliban’s enmity towards Russia was enduring, says Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network: “The Taliban always castigated the Northern Alliance for dealing with Russia,” she says. It may be that now Russian […]
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Voice of America, 19 March 2018 The US radio station has summarised AAN’s guest dispatch on US airstrikes against what it claimed were targets linked with Uyghur militants – and has asked the US military for a response: When contacted by VOA for his reaction to AAN’s report, U.S. military spokesman Captain Tom Gresback in […]
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