Tageszeitung, 3 August 2017 Op-ed summary and background on the 2 August IS-claimed terror attack on a Shia mosque in Herat by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) – online and in the print version.
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Tageszeitung, 1 August 2017 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and Borhan Osman about the IS-claimed attack on the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul (in German), with background on the Afghan IS chapter.
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RBB-Inforadio, 31 July 2017 Live interview by the Berlin-region public radio with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, about the announced (and still not published) security assessment update by the German foreign office and the current security situation in Afghanistan, one day after the IS-claimed attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul (listen to the audio in German).
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Voice of America, 30 July 2017 Reporting that a US airstrike earlier in July has not only killed ISKP’s amir Abu Saeed but also four other leading members of the group, an earlier AAN dispatch by Borhan Osman is quoted extensively: “The ‘decapitation’ of ISK-P has been well underway over the past two years as […]
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Asyl Aktuell, 1/2017 The Vienna-based magazine, run by the Austrian NGOs’ “Coordination on Asylum”, reprints a slightly abridged German version of Jelena Bjelica and Thomas Ruttig’s AAN dispatch on deportations and ‘voluntary’ return of Afghan asylum seekers to their country. Use the link, click on the cover of the magazine for the PDF and go […]
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Neues Deutschland, 24 July 2017 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) about the security situation in Afghanistan and the discussion about deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers from Germany.
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Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 July 2017 In an article (in German) reporting the introduction of a new character to the Afghan version of the Muppets Show, the Munich-based daily, one of the leading ones in Germany, also refers to shortcomings in the Afghan education system and AAN research about it.
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New York Times, 22 July 2017 This article on the claim of Taleban leader Hebatullah that his son has carried out a recent suicide attack on a police base in Helmand, driving a captured humvee, contains three links to the AAN website, mentions an article dated from May 2016 as a proof for plausibility of Hebatullah’s […]
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Ettelaat-e Ruz, 12 July 2017 (25 Saratan 1396) The Kabul-based daily published an updated version of Ehsan Qaane’s AAN dispatch about the deliberations between the International Criminal Court and the Afghan government.
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ODI/USIP, 10 July 2017 Watch this 47min video (or listen to the audio) of a panel with the head of AAN’s advisory board, Amb Francesc Vendrell, at an event in Washington DC co-hosted by ODI and the United States Institute of Peace to launch a new roadmap for political stability in Afghanistan. Other panelists: Said Tayeb Jawad (Ambassador […]
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One TV, 6 July 2017 The Afghan TV’s website (mis)quotes AAN’s Ehsan Qaane saying that the Haqqani case was referred to the ICC – this was not what we reported, but rather that this case was among a number of cases on which the Afghan government shared information with the ICC. It did so in an attempt […]
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Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2017 AAN’s Ehsan Qaane comments on the demonstration of 3 July by the new Uprising for Change movement: Ehsan Qaane of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based research group, said ethnic leaders believe Ghani is not giving them enough authority. “People think he is trying to remove Uzbeks and Tajiks […]
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