Julius Cavendish lived in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2011, reporting for a range of titles including Time, the Independent, Christian Science Monitor, the Times, and The National. He interviewed many of the protagonists of the Sangin peace accords and wrote a detailed account of the saga for the Afghanistan Analysts Network. He now lives in London.

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Accord Issue 27: Afghanistan

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