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Taliban offer to trade U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan

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The Star, 21 June 2013 New hints at the possibility of a deal for exchanging prisoners made by the Taleban representatives in Qatar have rekindled hopes in the US of bringing home Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, prisoner since 2009. The Taleban, on the other hand, ask for the release of some of their senior officials long […]

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Afghan revelations: Pakistan-US secret diplomacy created Doha roadmap

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The Express Tribune, 20 June 2013 This long article by the Pakistani newspaper offers Islamabad’s take of the opening of the Taleban office in Qatar. According to its many (unnamed) diplomatic sources “the real breakthrough in these negotiations came through personal diplomacy between John Kerry and Pakistan’s Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.” It thus […]

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The World According to Warlick

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El Snarkistani Storify feed, 19 June 2013 AAN guest blogger Gary Owens gathered examples of the apt and insightful social media presence of US Ambassador James Warlick.

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Afghan forces take over as peace talks loom, doubts remain

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McClatchy, 18 June 2013 With the Afghan security forces now officially in charge of protecting their country, the article takes stock of how the conflict is increasingly weighing on these forces. AAN’s Kate Clark comments about the strategy of the insurgents at this critical juncture and the ability of the Afghan forces to fight them […]

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Emergency Aid for Afghan Bomb Victims “Stolen”

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IWPR, 13 June 2013 IWPR reporters track down the lot of a 100,000$ worth of medical help meant for the clinic of remote (and contested) Azra district of Logar immediately after it had been hit hard by a truck bomb in July 2011 (AAN then wrote about the ruthless attack). The materials apparently never made […]

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Afghanistan: Der schwierige Weg in die Eigenständigkeit

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SRF, 10 June 2016 Tatsächlich wurden in den vergangenen Monaten Hunderte von Gefangenen entlassen – viel mehr als zuvor. Das habe verschiedene Gründe, sagt Martine van Bijlert vom «Afghan Analyst Network» [sic] in Kabul: «Gefangene werden entlassen, weil es zum Beispiel nicht genügend Beweise gab, sie festzuhalten. Andere haben ihre Zeit abgesessen, oder sie werden […]

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CNAS and a Dangerous Case for Intervention

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Registan (blog), 7 June 2013 Gary Owen/El Snarkistani presents a version of his AAN guest blog about the recent CNAS Afghanistan report here. He adds: ‘One of the more fun things I get to do as a would-be writer and pseudo-analyst focusing on Afghanistan is guest blog for the Afghanistan Analysts Network. … The fact […]

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Iran executions anger Afghan families

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al-Jazeera, 6 June 2013 Dozens of Afghans have been executed in recent months across the border in Iran, mostly for drug related offences, writes Bettany Matta. She looks into some individual cases, and also reports that the Taleban claim that they had taken up the issue in their recent meeting in Tehran: ‘We mentioned all […]

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What Sgt. Bales’ Guilty Plea Means for Afghanistan And The United States (audio)

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Kouw.org, 5 june 2013 Patricia Murphy reports live from the trial, and Ross Reynolds interviews Larry Goodson, South Asian Specialist at the US Army War College; plus Kate Clark, a senior analyst with the Afghanistan analysts network, and President Hamid Karzai’s brother Mahmood.

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Landays

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Poetry Foundation (no date) Read a fascinating article about one of the most popular Pashtun literary forms, the landay, in its 22 syllables a kind of Afghan haiku – and about them into picking up current events.

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Of Facts And Fables In Afghanistan

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 5 June 2013 Bashir Ahmad Gwakh teels the story how the air was let out of some over-hyped popular books about Afghanistan.

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Afghan reintegration scheme in the spotlight

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IRIN, 4 June 2013 In an article looking at the success (or absence of) of the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program (APRP), AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted as saying: ‘Reintegration offers money or other material incentives, and this is not the main – or sole – motive of many insurgents. I had the feeling that […]

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