• Asked why, Cambara, in a straight approach to the task informed by a touch of defiance, told her that she meant to reclaim the family property, wrest it from the hands of the warlord.

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  • Based in the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Air is the idea of warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam - who rules much of the country's northwest - and British entrepreneur Christopher Barnett-Jolley.

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  • Personal, visual stories created with our partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo helped put a warlord behind bars and caused a decline in the mobilization of children as soldiers in armed conflict.

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  • Independent publishers like Dynamite and Boom Studios are also putting out great stories (Dynamite publishes the popular Warlord of Mars series, Boom publishes the break out hit Irredeemable), which is terrific because they help keep the big boys honest.

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  • The coup is expected to affect the hunt for Joseph Kony, said the commander of African troops tracking the the fugitive warlord.

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  • Stark is demonstrating his latest smart bomb -- part of the "Freedom" line -- when he falls into the hands of a murderous warlord who turns out to have a well-stocked arsenal of Stark hardware.

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  • On the Burmese bank, a few meters from the wading smugglers is the Riverside Club, owned by Tong Jo, son of Khun Sa, the opium warlord who surrendered to the Burmese in 1996 but now lives comfortably in Rangoon.

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  • On Oct. 3-4, 1993, the Blackhawk Down incident took place, during a raid against the forces of warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed.

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  • Instead, their hapless mission against a compound suspected of housing the fugitive Somali warlord, Mohammed Aideed, netted nothing more than eight U.N. employees who had been sleeping there.

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  • Of course, she is well aware that the warlord will give her kind no quarter whatsoever, it being not in the nature of these brutes to show mercy to anyone.

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  • Village men mostly former local Taliban, or members of the Hezb-i-Islami group of warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar say they rose up against harsh new edicts by Taliban commanders who moved here this year from Pakistani madrassas, banning government education and imposing a more austere brand of Islam that defied local customs.

    WSJ: Taliban Targeted by Local Uprisings

  • We're not intervening with our own troops, except in the issue of chasing after this really awful warlord Joseph Kony who has ravaged the neighborhood in northern Congo, in the CAR - the Central African Republic - and northern Uganda.

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  • He also exploited a series of battles between warlords in western Afghanistan, bringing about the ousting of Herat's troublesome warlord-governor, Ismail Khan.

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  • They said they had to clear the area of a local warlord.

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  • She does know the name Joseph Kony, a brutal Ugandan warlord who was the subject of a viral video earlier this year.

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  • Even more worrisome is the manoeuvring of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a conservative and piratical warlord, to head the new judiciary.

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  • The authorities now say there was - and arrested Laota as the alleged financial mastermind of drug warlord Wei Hsueh-kang's illegal yaba (amphetamine) trade.

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  • The perpetrators "want to trigger a sectarian war in Afghanistan, " said parliament member Mohammad Mohaqiq, a former warlord and one of the Shiite community's most influential leaders.

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  • It cannot wash its hands in Pontius Pilate fashion of either the ICC-wanted M23 warlord Bosco Ntaganda, also known as The Terminator, or Laurent Nkunda, who is wanted by the Congolese government for war crimes and is under house arrest in Kigali.

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  • But it's the children who have transformed the big mustachioed Joseph Kony from a has-been Ugandan warlord into the second-coming of Adolf Hitler (whose little mustachioed face is, of course, also featured in the video).

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  • What had raised the stakes for Mr Rowland, his new best friend the warlord, and the warlord's fellow rebels was the discovery of oil in the south of the country.

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  • Two years later, militants shot down Black Hawk helicopters and killed American forces attempting to raid a warlord in the capital of Mogadishu.

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  • Unlike most of his peers, who lived a comfortable colonial existence in Shanghai's international settlement, Crow reported on floods up the Yangzi, negotiated the release of hostages from a Shandong warlord and slept in inns so grim he would stand his bed legs in kerosene to keep centipedes at bay.

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  • More recently, the local warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, whom Moscow has installed as leader of Chechnya, implausibly blames the West for backing the jihad against Russia.

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  • Mr. BERNTSEN: An Afghan warlord, not a member of the Northern Alliance.

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  • It might become the tool of a tribal faction or local warlord.

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  • The role wasn't a complete sinecure: the ruling warlord, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ordered the seppuku, or ritual suicide, of one of Koetsu's circle, the tea master Furuta Oribe, for some real or imagined disloyalty.

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  • Macroyan was largely under the control of a fourth group, an Uzbek militia called Junbish-e-Milli, led by a warlord of exceptional brutality named Abdul Rashid Dostum, who had fought for the Soviets.

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  • In Sangin, power after 2001 was in the hands a warlord from the Alikozai tribe named Dad Mohammad Khan and his family, allies of the Akhundzadas.

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