Kronenzeitung, 9 December 2017 The leading Austrian tabloid, looking at three months under the new US Afghanistan strategy, quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on (not progressing) peace talks, without saying where it quotes him from (the paper did not talk to him): “Aber so ist das eben in diesen Konflikten – es ist mühsame Kleinarbeit”, sagt Ruttig. […]
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The National Interest, 5 December 2017 The US magazine has a short quote (and a link to) AAN’s recent analysis of the UNODC opium survey: An evaluation of the UN report from the Afghan Analysis Network aptly concluded that opium is “a low-risk crop in a high-risk environment.”
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Mother Jones, 5 December 2017 The US magazine has processed US CENTCOM data into interesting charts. In the accompanying text, AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted: “The U.S. military is becoming less transparent, and it’s a pity because they had worked really hard — and succeeded — in reducing civilian casualties,” said Kate Clark, co-director of […]
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Los Angeles Times, 4 December 2017 This article tells the story of civilian casualties causes by an US airstrike in Nangrahar province – which is denied by the US military – and looks at current trends in the US air war in Afghanistan. AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted about that: “The U.S. military is becoming […]
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Svenska Dagbladet, 2 December 2017 AAN is quoted on the records levels of civilian casualties in this article by the leading Swedish daily, but it is behind a pay wall. Och i juli rapporterade organisationen Afghanistan Analysts Network, AAN, att antalet civila offer ligger på ”rekordnivåer”…
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Рамблер (Rambler), 1 December 2017 The Russian news website quotes AAN on Afghan fighters in Syria: Независимая некоммерческая исследовательская организация Afghanistan Analysts Network обвинила Россию в подготовке спонсируемых Ираном шиитских боевиков в Сирии. Об этом говорится в докладе, опубликованном на сайте организации. По утверждению Afghanistan Analysts Network, свидетельства того, что боевики из Афганистана и Пакистана тренируются в России, сами бойцы оставляют в соцсетях. (…) Это сообщение, как считают в Afghanistan […]
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Tolo TV, 27 November 2017 Watch AAN’s Ehsan Qaane talking with Kabul-based Tolo TV’s Mehwar programme about the forthcoming investigations of war crimes in Afghanistan by the International Criminal Court, explaining background and technicalities: The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said that the international judicial body is preparing to officially investigate […]
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YLE Nyheter, 27 November 2017 AAN’s Fazal Muzhary in a conversation on Finnish public radio/TV’s Swedish language website about bride prices in Afghanistan, based on his earlier dispatch.
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Ara.cat, 24 November 2017 The Catalan daily newspaper quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this portrait of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, saying that the presence of foreign troops in the country is one hurdle to the outbreak of a new factional war, feared by many in Afghanistan: “Els actors són els mateixos que als anys noranta. I, com […]
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23 November 2017 AAN’s Jelena Bjelica quoted in this article by the leading Swiss daily about the US’ airstrikes against heroin labs in Afghanistan: Der drastische Anstieg der Opiumproduktion geht einher mit einer Ausweitung der von den Taliban kontrollierten Gebiete. Afghanistans Drogenwirtschaft mit den Aufständischen gleichzusetzen, wie es mitunter getan wird, sei […]
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BBC Persian Radio, 22 November 2017 Listen to a radio interview with AAN’s Ehsan Qaane on the ICC’s decision to start war crimes investigations in Afghanistan after 2002 (starts at 12:45min in the programme).
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Voice of America, 20 November 2017 In a report about an ALP unit in Achin district, AAN research is quoted: An independent group of Kabul based researchers at Afghanistan Analysts Network reported, “Evidence of ALP being imposed on communities, of abusive behavior and of the capture of units by strongmen and tanzims [the old armed […]
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