Yeni Safak, 31 January 2017 Discussing why Afghanistan may have been spared the new US travel ban, AAN’s Kate Clark said: “Afghanistan might not be on the list as there are a lot of business deals and economic ties between it and America, or the administration in DC might fear that listing Afghanistan would be […]
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junge Welt, 28 January 2017 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this interview by the German leftwing daily with the head of the Bavarian Refugee Council (in Germany) about the local government withdrawing work permits from Afghan asylum seekers: Von Experten wie Thomas Ruttig, Direktor des Afghanistan Analysts Networks, wissen wir, dass es für viele […]
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The Diplomat, 26 January 2017 AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted here in a longer part: As Borhan Osman, of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, points out, “while ISKP’s influence on the battlefield seems to be waning — at least for now — its ideological potential does not seem to be in a concordant state of decline.” […]
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Tageszeitung, 26 January 2017 This article looking at which support is given to rejected and deported Afghan asylum seekers arriving back in Afghanistan has a short quote with an observation reported to AAN from Kabul airport: “They simply walk to the taxi stand.”
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Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Berliner Zeitung und Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 24. January 2017 The three newspapers carry an identical article, reporting the latest German deportation flight with rejected Afghan asylum seekers back to Afghanistan and the widespread criticism of it. It also quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig as saying that the deportation was “improper” as Afghanistan was not a […]
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Al-Sharq, 18 January 2017 The Berlin-based Middle East-focussed blog reprints a blog entry from AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig’s German language blog, Afghanistan Zhaghdablai, and where he, in turn, quotes from an AAN dispatch by Reza Kazemi about Herat: Zu Herat: Dort wird in einigen, auch sehr stadtnahen Distrikten durchaus gekämpft, und zwar zunehmend. Im letzten Afghan […]
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SRF 4 and 1, 13 January 2017, An extensive (25 min) interview on SWiss radio (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about Germany’s ‘return’ of rejected Afghan asylum seekers and the dispute in the country, between parts of the federal government and almost everyone else about whether Afghanistan is “safe enough” or not to deport […]
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The National, 12 January 2017 The UAE-based daily ponders who might be behind the bomb attack in the Kandahar governors house that also killed five Emarati citzens and quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: “Whoever did it has shot themselves in the foot and will not have made themselves popular with the rest of the country,” says […]
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Telepolis, 12 January 2017 The German blog quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, from his German language blog Afghanistan Zhaghdablai, on the debate about so-called safe areas in Afghanistan – on which the UNHCR has now contradicted the German government: Das Papier widerspricht in einigen zentralen Punkten der Annahme von sicheren Zonen, wie dies in konzentrierter Form […]
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Russia Today, 11 January 2017 An article of the Russian state media outlet on the occasion of the Gitmo camp anniversary quotes from Kate Clark’s AAN study: A November 2016 study from Afghan [sic] Analysts Network found the US authorities committed “gross miscarriages of justice”against the victims, many of whom were detained on scant evidence. It […]
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The Hill, 5 January 2017 This blog entry, still looking for a Trump Afghanistan policy, quotes, among others, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, with a statement originally in an article in The Atlantic: According to Thomas Ruttig, the co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, Washington is “is by far the largest spender on the Afghan armed forces and […]
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Daily Times, 3 January 2016 In an op-ed article in the Pakistani daily, the author quotes AAN research on cases of women rights abuses in Afghanistan (but mingled some facts): On 25 October 2015, Afghanistan Analyst Network in its paper reported 19 years old girl Miss Rukhshanda was stoned to death in Feroz Koh district […]
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