Evangelischer Pressedienst (epd), 31 May 2017 Print text of the German news agency, based on an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig who says that the Kabul lorry attack on 31 May 2017 was a “demonstration of power” by the insurgents to show the “inability of the Afghan security forces to protect the population”.
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Deutschandfunk, 31 May 2017 Interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the security situation in Kabul and the rest of the country, the strength of the Taliban and ISKP, the state of the Afghan government and the German policy on deportations to Afghanistan.
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SRF News, 31 May 2017 Brief interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on this morning’s truck bomb at a busy intersection in Kabul. The headline’s quote comes from this part: Er ist über weite Teile kein Krieg mit offenen Fronten, sondern ein Guerillakrieg, der zum Teil mit terroristischen Mitteln geführt wird. Dagegen kann man sich nur […]
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Al Jazeera, 27 My 2017 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig weighs in on the deportations of Afghans from Germany. “The discussion is not about whether Afghanistan is a safe country which can receive deportees or not,” said Thomas Ruttig, a German researcher and cofounder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. “It’s more or less purely about domestic politics […]
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News Deeply, 23 May 2017 The news service republishes a shorter version of Fazal Muzhary’s AAN dispatch about the problems the Afghan province of Nangrahar is facing after the (often involuntary) return of Afghan refugees from Pakistan – original title: “Resettling Nearly Half a Million Afghans in Nangrahar: The consequences of the mass return of […]
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Reuters, 23 May 2017 Article on setbacks in Afghanistan’s education sector quotes AAN’s researcher Ali Adili, in response to his recent AAN dispatch on the education figures: Ali Yawar Adili at the Afghanistan Analysts Network said there was huge mismanagement, citing the case of the Education Ministry printing thousands of incorrect school textbooks that now […]
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Berliner Morgenpost and Hamburger Abendblatt, 22 May 2017 A quote of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the recent attack on a Christian NGO office in kabul during which a German woman was killed: “Christliche Missionsarbeit ist ein rotes Tuch in Afghanistan – nicht nur für die Taliban”, sagte Thomas Ruttig, Direktor des Afghanistan Analysts Networks, dieser […]
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Tageszeitung, 22 May 2017 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig op-ed contribution about General Dostum leaving into exile in Turkey, officially declared as a trip for “medical treatment.” This deepens the government crisis in Afghanistan further and, given Dostum’s control over the Afghan Uzbek vote bank, necessitates (from President Ghani’s point of view) to develop a new leader […]
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Morgenpost, 21 May 2017 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig commented on the possible reasons for the recent killing and abduction of a German and Finnish international aid worker in Kabul: Operation Mercy ist eine christliche Vereinigung. Glaubensbasierte Angriffe sind zwar selten, kommen aber immer wieder vor. Zuletzt hatten die Taliban 2014 das Gästehaus einer Organisation angegriffen, die sie […]
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Voice of America, 17 May 2017 Article quotes AAN’s Kate Clark on the possible increase of US troops in Afghanistan: With some 350,000 Afghan security forces already engaged in the fight, the [US] numbers reportedly under consideration are marginal, and seem intended only to increase pressure on the Taliban to negotiate. “His thinking is basically […]
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 May 2017 After Hekmatyar’s return to Afghanistan, Switzerland’s most prominent newspaper looks at the influence of warlords in Afghanistan, extensively quoting AAN’s Thomas Ruttig directly and indirectly: Nach dem Sturz der Taliban 2001, bei dem die amerikanische Luftwaffe die Bodentruppen der Nordallianz unterstützte, wurden viele dieser regionalen Machtträger trotz ihrer oftmals […]
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Florida Daily Post, 14 May 2017 Article on the aftermath of the MOAB on Achin, quotes AAN’s Kate Clark: Residents in Achin district say that they knew of no civilians still living voluntarily in the areas near the Islamic State stronghold, but it is still not clear if other non-combatants may have been involved. “The […]
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