Klassekampen, 19 March 2018 In a package about the current situation in Afghanistan, the Norwegian leftwing daily spoke to AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (about the situation in Faryab province, where formerly a Norwegian PRT was based) and the recent peace proposals with Prof Barnett Rubin (behind a pay wall).
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ARD, 17 March 2018 This article on the website of Germany’s leading news programme, Tagesschau, quotes “renowned Afghanistan Analysts Network” as saying that president Ghani’s peace proposal is qualitatively more far reaching than any earlier peace initiative and that it was likely that the Taliban are contemplating it.
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AP/Military Times, 14 March 2018 In this article by Kathy Gannon on the forthcoming Ulema conference in Indonesia and recent peace initiatives, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted: Thomas Ruttig, co-founder of the independent Afghanistan Analysts Network, called Ghani’s offer “a good beginning, not more, not less.” “Most elements of the proposal have been brought up […]
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Breaking Defence, 13 March 2018 In this article looking on the increased number of US airstrikes in Afghanistan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on possible adverse effects: Thomas Ruttig, co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said he is particularly concerned about the impact the coming wave of airstrikes will have on civilians. “We have seen […]
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Bistandsaktuelt, 13 March 2018 The Norwegian website picks up AAN’s latest analysis of the upsurge in fighting in Faryab province where Norwegian troops have been deployed for many years under ISAF and summarises it, with a commentary of PRIO’s Kristian Harpviken: Dette er noen av hovedpunktene i en fersk rapport skrevet av Thomas Ruttig og […]
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Augen geradeaus! 12 March 2018 The German security policy blog run by Thomas Wiegold refers to AAN’s latest analysis of the military situation in the northern Afghan province and adds an interesting detail: that German soldiers are currently evaluating the effectiveness of the Afghan forces there.
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Jyllands-Posten, 11 March 2018 The leading Danish newspaper reports about the latest Afghan peace overtures to the Taleban and extensively quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (behind a paywall): Og ifølge afghanistan- eksperten Thomas Ruttig fra Afghan Analyst Network [sic] i Berlin er der tale om »det mest vidtgående fredstilbud siden 2001«. »De este af elementerne i […]
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The Hindu, 3 March 2018 This article on President Ghani’s peace proposal to the Taleban quotes from AAN research by Thomas Ruttig and Jelena Bjelica: The proposal has a reference to “negotiation of… any contested aspect of the international community’s future role in Afghanistan”. This, in the opinion of security analysts Thomas Ruttig and Jelena […]
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NZZ am Sonntag, 3 March 2018 A short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this article about the current situation in Afghanistan in the Sunday edition of leading Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German): Ein entscheidender strategischer Vorteil der Taliban sei die Möglichkeit, sich bei Bedarf nach Pakistan zurückzuziehen, sagt Thomas Ruttig vom Afghanistan […]
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Tageszeitung, 1 March 2018 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in he Berlin-based daily on the alleged German Taleban advisor captured in the Afghan province of Helmand (in German).
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 28 February 2018 The leading Swiss daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Afghan government’s peace proposals to the Taleban laid out at the Kabul Process’s second meeting, as not fully new in its details, but remarkably systematic: Thomas Ruttig vom Afghanistan Analysts Network, einer Denkfabrik in Kabul, erklärt, dass die einzelnen […]
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Tageszeitung, 28 February 2018 Thomas Ruttig’s article summarising the meeting of the Kabul Process and the Afghan president’s peace proposal to the Taleban (in German).
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