The Globe Post, 1 July 2017 This article in The Globe Post – a project run by exiled Turkish journalists – quotes, among others, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the US’ (so far, non-) strategy for Afghanistan: Thomas Ruttig, Co-Director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said the CIA and other U.S. special forces may pursue a […]
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Ulkopolitiikka 1/2017 (March) With some delay, for our Finnish-speaking readers: article portraying the Taleban 15 years after their regime in Afghanistan was overthrown – with quotes from AAN’s Borhan Osman and Thomas Ruttig and guest author Anand Gopal in the Finnish Journal “Foreign Affairs”.
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National Interest, 28 June 2017 Article extensively references AAN’s recent dispatch on the need for reform in the Ministry of Interior: To an American audience, it is sometimes difficult to grasp how Afghan government corruption prevents U.S.-allied forces from defeating the insurgency. A few key examples will serve to illuminate the gravity of the situation. […]
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Daily Mail/AFP, 23 June 2017 A new story about the Zanabad, the ‘widows hill’ settlement in a Kabul outskirt, quoting an earlier AAN story by Naheed Esar, after the demise of the elder of the place, Bibikoh, in 2016: Bibikoh organised literacy classes, sewing workshops and food distributions with the support of an NGO, says […]
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Večer, 20 June 2017 AAN research quoted and linked in the Slovenian news website’s article about Afghan refugees in Europe: Med leti 2015 in 2016 naj bi iz Afganistana proti Evropi zbežalo okoli 250 000 Afganistank in Afganistancev. Po poročanjuorganizacije Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) se je to število zdaj zmanjšalo in lani se je izjemno […]
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HR2, 20 June 2017 A full hour podcast on Afghanistan (in German), featuring AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, Nicole Birtsch (SWP Berlin), ARD correspondents and a German soldier critical of the Bundeswehr mission, on Frankfort based Hesse state public radio.
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Wiener Zeitung, 17 June 2017 In this article (in German) about the probably only female commander of an ALP unit in Afghanistan, Thomas Ruttig is quoted on the quasi-militia-like character of the ALP: “Die afghanische Lokalpolizei ist notorisch unzuverlässig, und ihre Einheiten werden in der Tat oft nur sporadisch bezahlt”, sagt Thomas Ruttig vom Afghanistan […]
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SRF4, 16 June 2017 Audio file of an interview on Swiss radio’s daily news show “Echo der Zeit” about a reported ‘IS victory’ in the Tora Bora mountains of eastern Afghanistan (in German).
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Washington Post, 15 June 2017 AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted from earlier analysis here on how the American University in Kabul attracted the attention of the Taleban and how it became a target. Also in al-Sharq al-Awsat, here.
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Tolonews, 13 June 2017 AAN’s reporting about the situation of Afghan refugees in Europe and particularly on the Balkans has been picked up in an opinion piece on one of Afghanistan’s leading news channels: n 2015, about 200,000 Afghans – who according to the interviews conducted by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) were mainly young […]
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al-Sharq al-Awsat, 13 June 2017 The Arab-language newspaper quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman from his recent dispatch (“Black week in Kabul (2)”): “Despite the Taliban’s categorical denial, the attack bears all the hallmarks of the movement,” Borhan Osman of the Afghanistan Analysts Network stated. “The movement’s operational capacity and logistical access to plan and execute such […]
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Deutschlandfunk, 13 June 2017 This article on the website of the German public radio about corruption in the Afghan MoI and police draws mainly on AAN’s recent dispatch on the issue and a follow-up interview with Thomas Ruttig (in German).
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