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The Attack on the ICRC and the Changing Conflict in Afghanistan

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Political Violence @ a Glance (blog), 4 June 2013 This blog links to Claudio Franco’s AAN blog about ‘the changing Taleban DNA’ and Kate Clark’s AAN blog on the attack on the ICRC.

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Police: Suicide bomber kills 10 in Afghan market

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ABC/AP, 3 June 2013 This report, on the killing of 10 schoolchildren by an IED planted by insurgents, refers to Thomas Ruttig’s AAN blog on the insurgents’ spring offensive: ‘”The level of violence this year is the highest it has been since the war started in 2001,” said Thomas Ruttig of the Afghan Analysts Network […]

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President Karzai’s Visit To India: Setting The Policy Markers For Post-2014 Afghanistan

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Eurasia Review, 3 June 2013 This analysis by Shanthie D’Souza quotes from Thomas Ruttig’s AAN blog ‘Trouble at the Goshta Gate: New tensions and old wounds along the Durand Line’.

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Disabled Afghans protest against Red Cross attack

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al-Arabiya/AFP, 2 June 2013 ‘Scores of disabled people, several of them amputees, gathered outside a Red Cross office in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday to protest against militants who attacked the building four days ago.’ Reportedly, there was a similar demo in Kandahar.

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The Potential Fallout Of A Pakistani Militant’s Death

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1 June 2013 Abubakar Siddique looks at repercussions of the killing of Wali-ur Rehman Mehsud, the deputy TTP commander, in a US drone strike.

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AAN in the Media – May 2013

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A party with many faces AfPak Channel, 31 May 2013 In another analysis of Hezb-e Islami, ex-TLO analyst Casey Garret Johnson quotes from the Borhan Osman’s and Thomas Ruttig’s AAN blog that appeared on the AfPakChannel in an updated version on 24 May this year Afghan attacks put aid groups in the line of fire […]

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Recommended Reading – May 2013

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This is what happens when you ban male press from a female rock fest in Afghanistan The Gender Report, 29 May 2013 Last month, in Kabul’s Lycee Esteqlal the country’s largest ever female rock festival was held. Male journalists were excluded, and since almost none of the major international news outlets in the country employ […]

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Recommended Reading – April 2013

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Balkh newspapers struggling to survive Pajhwok News Agency (Kabul), 30 April 2013 ‘The newspaper industry in Balkh province is struggling to survive in the face of security concerns, declining readership and self-censorship. … Qayyum Babak, whose daily Jehan-i-Naw was shut down four years ago, said newspapers began losing their ground with a rapid increase in […]

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AAN in the Media – April 2013

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Ghost money from MI6 and CIA may fuel Afghan corruption, say diplomats The Guardian, 30 April 2013 This article refers to Kate Clark’s AAN blog on CIA operations in Afghanistan: ‘A report on Monday by the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a thinktank in Kabul, said the latest such NDS-CIA operation, in Kunar province on 13 April, […]

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AAN in the Media – March 2013

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Afghanische Sicherheitskräfte: Alleingelassen Tagesspiegel (Berlin), 27 March 2013 Reporting the latest growing casualty figures of the ANSF, the Berlin-based daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig saying it is not sufficient to explain these figures by the growing ANSF role folliwing transition. The ANSF ‘obviously are not sufficiently trained’ and ‘adequately equipped yet’. This is confirmed by […]

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Recommended Reading – March 2013

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Afghans Failing Security Test In Badakhshan RFE/RL, 28 March 2013 After NATO handed over security duties in Badakhshan to the ANA and ANP last year, ‘a spike in violence and increased militant activity’ has been registered. The two Afghan authors write that ‘the region is an ideal testing ground of Afghanistan’s ability to secure remote […]

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Afghanistan-Einsatz: Wie Militär und Politik die Einsatzbereitschaft der afghanischen Armee schönfärben

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ARD Kontraste, 28 February 2013 The political magazine on German TV reports how the German Defence Ministry manipulated reports by its ANA trainers in ISAF’s CUAT data base that assesses progress made. AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted on general problems in the ANA (transcript and video)

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