KCRW, 22 August 2017 Listen to the show: AAN’s Kate Clark was on a radio panel with KCRW, on the US National Public Radio Network. Other participants: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Washington Post; Omar Samad, Silk Road Consulting / New America Foundation; Hardin Lang, Center for American Progress.
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Radio Student (Ljubljana), 18 August 2017 Half-hour interview (in English) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the history and present of Afghanistan’s conflicts, with an additional question on plans in the US to ‘privatise’ the Afghan war. (Only intro and some text in between in Slovenian.)
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Tageszeitung, 17 August 2017 Op-ed article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and Ehsan Qaane on Afghan government plans to limit the law of assembly.
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Das Blättchen 17/2017 (14 Aug 2017) An updated German translation of Jelena Bjelica and Thomas Ruttig’s AAN dispatch an fact, figures and trends of – voluntary and involuntary – returns to Afghanistan in the German web-based political, cultural and economic biweekly. Not online. a PDF of the article here: 20170814Blättchen-Bjelica & Ruttig Rückkehr nach AFG […]
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Tageszeitung, 14 August 2017 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the German foreign office’s latest security assessment for Afghanistan in the Berlin-based daily (in German). He points out that the conclusion – “security situation for Afghan civilians has not changed substantially” since end of ISAF mission – contradicts latest UN Spacial Rep report to the […]
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n-tv, 11 August 2017 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig with some disagreeing quotes about the recent new evaluation of the Afghan security situation of the German foreign office which surprisingly states that the threat for Afghan civilians was comparatively “low.” On the website of German private n-tv (in German).
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Tribune de Genève, 11 August 2017 Version of the Le Figaro article of 18 August with quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, but here without paywall. «Le retrait du gros des troupes de l’OTAN en décembre 2014 a donné plus de marge de manœuvre aux talibans», note Thomas Ruttig, codirecteur de l’Afghanistan Analysts Network, un centre […]
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dpa/Amerika-Woche, 11 August 2017 The German news agency quotes from AAN’s Janikhel dispatch, mainly background on the vulnerability of the government’s grip on the area, in its report on the district centre falling to the Taleban again (in German).
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Le Figaro, 11 August 2017 Quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in a leading French daily about Taleban territorial gains and the extension of their room to manoeuvre after the end of the ISADF mission in 2014 (in French, with paywall).
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Süddeutsche Zeitung, 9 August 2017 Op-ed by Thomas Ruttig, with a balance of the German military engagement in Kunduz, in the Munich-based daily, one of the leading ones in Germany. It looks at the strong and, as it seems, irreversible Taleban province in the region and comes to the conclusion: “military mission not accomplished.” Presenting the […]
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Radio 24, 7 August 2017 Fabrizio Foschini talked to Nessun Luogo é Lontano, the foreign politics program of Radio 24 in Italy, about the alleged Taleban/Isis offensive in Sayad district of Sarepul province. He gave a short socio-political profile of the north, talked about the Taleban drive for recruiting non-Pashtuns in the last decade, the competition […]
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Volkskrant, 3 August 2017 AAN’s Martine van Bijlert speaks about the growing trend of Afghan women using their name publicly on social media (still a taboo in conservative sectors of Afghan society) (in Dutch).
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