Il Manifesto, 2 September 2017 The Italian left-wing daily covers Kate Clark’s report for AAN about the two CIA contractors who developed the torture programme used in Afghanistan and a court verdict now opening the chance for compensation for victims and their families (in Italian, behind pay wall).
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Rheinische Post (online), 29 August 2017 The German daily quotes AAN’s Jelena Bjelica in an article about Afghanistan’s drug economy (in German, behind a pay wall): Afghanistan bringt in diesem Jahr wohl die größte Opiumernte seiner Geschichte ein … sagt Jelena Bjelica vom Rechercheinstitut Afghanistan Analysts Network.
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Deutschlandfunk, 22 August 217 Listen to an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the new US strategy for Afghanistan under Trump (in German).
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Aufwachen! (blog), 26 August 2017 More than 1 hour of podcast with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, about the roots, the development and the current situation of the Afghn conflict(s) (in German).
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Daily Times, 26 August 2017 Op-ed by AA’s Thomas Ruttig in the Pakistani daily, looking at Donald Trump’s refusal to do state building in Afghanistan as a major void in his Afghanistan strategy, given Afghanistan’s weak, superficial democratic institutions. He concludes: A country as ethnically, religiously, politically and socially diverse as Afghanistan needs reliable institutions […]
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The Atlantic, 25 August 2017 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig comments on whether Russia is involved in arming the Taliban: Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, told me in an email that while Russia might be quite happy to see the 16-year-old U.S. mission in Afghanistan fail, tracking arms supplies to the militants is nearly […]
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al-Jazeera, 24 August 2017 Longer quotes of AAN’s Kate Clark in this article about Trump’s Pakistan-related remarks in his 21 August Afghanistan address: “On the Afghan side, it’s always assumed that the US could sort out Pakistan if it wanted to … and I think that’s a wrong assumption. I think it’s much more tricky,” […]
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Dagens Nyheter, 23 August 2017 The leading Swedish daily quotes from AAN analysis in its article about Donald Trump’s Afghanistan address – but the detail is hidden behind a pay wall.
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Central Asian Analytical Network, 23 August 2017 Full interview (both in English and Russian) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the Baku-based outlet about Trump’s Afghanistan strategy. Russian version under the same link, just switch languages.
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Tagesspiegel, 22 August 2017 Full interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about President Trump’s 21 August Afghanistan address, both print and online (in German).
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SRF 4, 22 August 2017 Interview by Swiss radio about the new US Afghanistan strategy under Trump (listen to audio in German).
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RFI, 22 August 2017 Article quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in response to Trump’s speech implying the US intends to stay in Afghanistan and fight until al Qaeda and the Islamic State are wiped out and the Taliban defeated on the battlefield: Such an effort would “take years or even further decades” of US deployment to Afghanistan, […]
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