Voice of America, 10 March 2017 Voice America article quotes two AAN dispatches on how ISKP operates, messages and recruits. First it quotes Borhan Osman’s dispatch on the ISKP’s cells in Kabul: The Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, in a dispatch published on its website last year, claimed to have some evidence of at least three […]
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Tageszeitung, 8 March 2017 Op-ed summary in the Berlin based-daily by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig of the IS-claimed attack on the Kabul military hospital (in German).
AAN in the Media
Katholische Nachrichtenagentur, 6 March 2017 (not online) The news agency of the German catholic church quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Taleban’s invitation to NGOs and assurance to them of protection (in German): Kabul (KNA) Der deutsche Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig sieht eine wachsende Dialogbereitschaft der radikalislamischen Taliban mit internationalen Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs). Er bestätigte am Montag […]
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Publik-Forum (online), 5 March 2017 Interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) about the security situation in Afghanistan and on which support rejected and deported Afghan asylum seekers can rely in Afghanistan on the website of the German protestant church’s grassroots movement’s weekly.
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 3 March 2017 Author Volker Pabst of the leading Swiss daily writes about the situation of Afghan – forced or ‘voluntary’ – returnees mainly from Pakistan, but also from Europe and used AAN data for his graph on the return figures.
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Tageszeitung, 2 February 2017 Op-ed commentary by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the latest attempt of the German federal government to bring state governments in line of its deportation policy of failed Afghan asylum seekers (in German). Main argument: the German government continues to fail to tell the public where the allaged “secure” or “relatively secure” […]
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Tageszeitung (online), 2 February 2017 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the new crisis in Afghan-Pakistani relations, playing out after Pakistani accusations of a wave of terrorist attacks being organised from Afghan territory – and counter-accusations and an Afghan quasi-boycott of the latest ECO regional organisation summit in Islamabad (in German).
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Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 28 February 2017 This report about the increasing use of US airstrikes in the south of Afghanistan, reminiscent of the early phase of the war when ‘local strongmen’ instrumentalised the US forces to get rid of personal rivals, has a quote of former AAN colleague Lenny Linke: “Generally speaking the central government […]
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El Pais, 27 February 2017 In this article about the remarkable Taleban message on tree planting in Afghanistan, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here as saying (replying to a question whether this could be a coded message starting the Taleban’s annual spring offensive) that he doesn’t believe that and that this is perhaps a way […]
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Express Tribune, 27 February 2017 In this article about two former Afghan inmates of Guantanamo who, after their release, chose divergent paths – one became an Islamic State jihadist, the other joined the US-led government fight to crush the group – quotes some passages from Kate Clark’s AAN dispatch about Afghans mistakenly apprehended or wrongfully turned over […]
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Links 1-2/2017 (27 February 2017) An interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the current situation in Afghanistan, a comparison with his first stay in Afghanistan in the 1980s and and a review of the German engagement in the country (in German) by the Dresden-based party newsletter of the Saxonion Die Linke (Left Party). A full […]
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Tageszeitung, 26 February 2017 Short op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Taleban leadership’s appeal to Afghans to plant trees.
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