BBC (Persian service), 18 November 2016 Quotes from Thomas Ruttig and Kate Clark’s AAN dispatch thinking about the possibly Afghanistan policy of US president-elect Donald Trump in this analysis: توماس روتیگ و کیت کلارک، پژوهشگران شبکه تحلیلگران افغانستان در تحلیلی در مورد این اظهار نظرهای آقای ترامپ نوشتهاند: “رئیس جمهوری منتخب و تیم او در […]
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The Friday Times, 18 November 2016 The liberal Pakistani weekly published a shortened version of Thomas Ruttig and Kate Clark’s AAN dispatch about how new US President Trump’s Afghanistan policy could be expected t look like.
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The Guardian, 17 November 2016 AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted here on IS’ strength in Afghanistan: Borhan Osman, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said that although Isis had lost half its initial territory in Nangarhar, it seemed to have dug in firmly in its four districts. “They have proved to be irremovable from these areas,” […]
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 16 November 2016 The most important Swiss daily extensively quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig – directly and indirectly – in its article about the seven ministers sacked by Afghan parliament, and on the continuing political crisis (in German). The headline: “Power struggle in cabinet: the for-ever construction site.”
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RFE/RL Gandhara blog, 16 November 2016 Listen to or download this podcast about the new US administration’s possible approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan, with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, Woodrow Wilson School’s Michael Kugelmann, Gandhara’s Abu Bakr Siddique and host Muhammad Taher.
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Tageszeitung, 15 November 2016 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin-based daily, looking at the latest Taleban attacks (on Bagram air base and the German consulate in Mazar) and its implications (in German).
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Telepolis (blog), 12 November 2016 This entry into one of the most active German political blogs refers to the “longer, but well readable and comprehensible analysis by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and Kate Clark”: Die Frage ist nun, wie die Nato und vor allem die USA auf die Ausbreitung der Taliban reagieren sollen. Der frisch gewählte […]
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dpa/Huffington Post (Germany), 12 November 2016 The German press agency quotes from AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig’s interview with Deutsche Welle, in an analysis of the recent Taleban attacks in Bagram and Mazar-e Sharif: Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig sagte nun der „Deutschen Welle“: “Die Situation verschlechtert sich. Es gibt nicht wirklich Gebiete, die sicher sind; sie sind vielleicht eine […]
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dpa/Stern and others, 11 November 2016 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted by the German news agency on the Taleban’s shifting views on Germany and its role as an member of the military alliance in Afghanistan. Also on (German TV) ZDF Heute homepage, Die Zeit, Bonner Generalanzeiger, Mittelhessen.de, In Südthüringen.de, Lippische Landes-Zeitung, Schweriner Volkszeitung, Trierischer Volksfreund and others.
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Deutsche Welle, 11 November 2016 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the motives behind the Taleban attack on the the German general consulate in Mazar-e Sharif, on the general security situation and causes of Afghan refugee movements. Also in German, Spanish, Russian and other languages.
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TRT World, 10 November 2016 The website of the Turkish state broadcaster’s English service extensively quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman on the role of ISKP: Borhan Osman, a Kabul-based analyst at the Afghanistan Analyst Network, said there is no “hard evidence” to show operational links between the members in Afghanistan and Baghdadi’s group in the Middle East. […]
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ETH Zurich, 9 November 2016 Long article on the “rise and stall” of the Islamic State in Afghanistan quotes one of AAN’s many dispatches on the subject, twice: Mangal Bagh has been under pressure since Pakistan military forces launched operation “Khyber 1” against his network in March 2014, after which fighters and families loyal to […]
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