AFP/The National, 17 September 2017 AAN’s Kate Clark comments on plans to establish a new paramilitary set-up in Afghanistan, a so-called Afghan Territorial Army: But critics fear that rather than support Afghanistan’s beleaguered security forces, a government-armed militia could aggravate factionalism and push Afghanistan deeper into conflict. “It’s a tool that the US military and […]
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Frankfurter Allgemeine, 15 September 2017 In this reportage about new factional conflicts in northern Afghanistan, from Mazar-e Sharif and Sherberghan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is briefly quoted about the re-emerging Hezb-e Islami presence in the area: So etwa Juma Khan Hamdard, einem Gegenspieler Attas im Norden, dessen Anhänger nun „spürbar die Vorherrschaft des Gouverneurs herausfordern“, wie […]
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La Croix, 14 September 2017 The French daily quotes Alex Strick van Linschoten from his AAN report on the ideology of the Taleban: « L’idéologie talibane s’est transformée ces deux dernières décennies, note le chercheur Alex Strick van Linschoten dans un rapport du think tank Afghanistan Analysts Network. Leur vision du monde n’est pas moins conservative ou […]
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Frankfurter Rundschau, 12 September 2017 After Germany’s latest deportation charter flight, this article quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the disputable official German government assessment of the Afghan security situation: Günter Burkhardt, Geschäftsführer von Pro Asyl sagte der FR noch vor dem Abflug: „Die Situation in Afghanistan eskaliert und ist unkalkulierbar. Die jetzige Abschiebung ist rein […]
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AFP/Newsweek Pakistan and Express Tribune, 11 September 2017 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in this obituary for renowned Afghanistan scholar Nancy Dupree: “She was passionate about education and sharing knowledge and making sure Afghans had access to the records of their own history,” said Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. Express Tribune article here.
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The Hindu, 10 September 2017 Also with a look at the US air war under Trump’s new strategy, the Indian daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: However, with the increasing number of civilian casualties, the approach to the Afghan war is being reviewed with a critical eye and deep concerns. “The rules of engagement have been […]
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Diario di Trieste, 9 September 2017 AAN’s Fabrizio Foschini mentioned here, on an event in Trieste: Martedì 12 settembre, cinquantenario della scomparsa di Bartol – nato nel quartiere di San Giovanni, a Trieste, nel 1903 e morto a Lubiana, appunto, il 12 settembre del 1967 – se ne parlerà nel corso di un incontro con […]
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Freitag, 36/2017 (8 September 2017) Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Trump strategy for Afghanistan and why it is so insufficient in lacking a clear policy on institution building, democratisation, rights and the country’s socio-economic problems (in German).
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n-tv, 7 September 2017 Against the backdrop of new, planned German deportation flight with rejected Afghan asylum seekers, the private German TV station (on its website) refers to AAN’s Thomas Ruttig’s German blog Afghanistan Zhaghdablai with its regularly updated data on this and other Afghanistan-related issues: Der Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig hat auf seinem Blog die […]
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Voice of America, 6 September 2017 A tweet of AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted in this article about US military spreading an anti-Taleban leaflet in Afghanistan that is seen as offensive to Muslims in general: Borhan Osman, a researcher at the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, noted that rage is building against the NATO-led Resolute Support, […]
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Stuttgarter Zeitung, 6 September 2017 The Stuttgart-based daily’s long interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) on the current situation in Afghanistan, on Trump’s Afghanistan strategy, recent reports of Kabul government-Taleban contacts and more.
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The Guardian, 4 September 2017 The Guardian, exploring he question what impact an intensified US air campaign under Trump in Afghanistan will have on the population, among other quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: “If civilian casualties continue rising, sooner or later at least sections of the population will not be happy about the government not being […]
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