Mondiaal Nieuws (MO), 4 February 2018 The Belgian Flemish-language news website looks at asylum policies in Europe vis-a-vis Afghans (“politically profitable, but dangerous [for Afghans]” and quotes from Thomas Ruttig’s recent analysis of the latest series of terrorist attacks in Kabul: Thomas Ruttig, van het Afghanistan Analysts Network, schrijft in een recente analyse dat er […]
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El País, 3 February 2018 AAN’s Rohullah Soroush and Thomas Ruttig are quotes in the leading Spanish daily’s article about the latest wave of terrorist attacks in Kabul: “Todo el mundo tiene miedo de que le pille el próximo atentado. Las redes sociales están llenas de avisos y rumores”, cuenta Rohullah Sorush. (…) La guerra “se […]
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BBC, 3 February 2018 Watch an almost 1h-long video of this Newshour Extra programme, with AAN’s Kate Clark, Amb. Shukria Barakzai, Michael Semple and a former Pakistani military attaché discussing whether the latest spike in violence in Afghanistan mean Taleban tactics have changed, and if so why? Is it time, once and for all, to make peace with the […]
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Christian Science Monitor, 2 February 2018 Longer quotes by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig after recent restrictions on Afghan war metrics by the US military in Afghanistan: “Of course it’s a cover-up. What else can it be, when you hide figures? The thing is, it is not going well,” says Thomas Ruttig, a co-director of the Kabul-based […]
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Afghanistan.ru, 1 February 2018 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in this news summary of the specialised Russia-based website, reporting the BBC research about Taleban control in Afghanistan: Проведение исследования поприветствовала содиректор некоммерческой исследовательской организации “Afghanistan Analysts Network” Кейт Кларк, выразившая уверенность в том, что полученным сведениям можно доверять. «Результаты <исследования> были шокирующими, но, увы, неудивительными […]
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Tageszeitung, 1 February 2018 A long read by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the latest series of terrorist attack in Kabul and elsewhere in Afghanistan and on the relationship of competition between the Taleban and the local IS-affiliated groups.
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TRT World, 1 February 2018 In this article on the Turkish news website, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and research by AAN’s Jelena Bjelica are both quoted on the US start of a targeted strikes campaign against drug labs in Afghanistan. Thomas describes how drug labs would look like: “Those labs are not what people—at least we […]
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Wall Street Journal, 31 January 2018 A quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig which, unfortunately, is only partly visible behind a pay wall…: With the latest wave of bombings in the Afghan capital—and talk of a political settlement between the Afghan government and the Taliban fading—the question has become all but moot, said Thomas Ruttig, co-director […]
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BBC, 31 January 2018 This extensive research about the geographical spread of Taleban territorial control in Afghanistan which has been reviewed by AAN’s Kate Clark, also links to recent AAN research by Thomas Ruttig: The BBC’s research has been reviewed by the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, which has been reporting on Afghanistan since 2009. Co-Director Kate […]
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Defence One, 31 December 2018 This US government (?) website found a recent AAN dispatch worth putting it in its news round-up: Another group that found bad news in the ‘Stan: the Afghanistan Analysts Network, which reports “the Afghan war became more violent and widespread in 2017. Dive into their exhaustive analysis, here.
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CTC, 31 January 2018 This short report by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Centre used a number of AAN articles.
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Le Figaro, 31 January 2018 The French daily carries quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and ex-colleague Borhan Osman (now ICG) about the recent wave of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan (in French, behind paywall): « Chaque camp multiplie les déclarations en faveur de la paix alors qu’il se passe peu de choses en coulisses », déplore Thomas Ruttig, […]
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