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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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.
Two years later, militants shot down Black Hawk helicopters and killed American forces attempting to raid a warlord in the capital of Mogadishu.
Another time a warlord in the eastern Khost Province arrested two Roshan employees and threw them in jail, complaining that villagers were unhappy with the service and found it too expensive.
She does know the name Joseph Kony, a brutal Ugandan warlord who was the subject of a viral video earlier this year.
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.
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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Will he extend a protective hand to her if she makes the resolve to confront the warlord?
The warlord's forces shot down two U.S. helicopters and killed 18 U.S. servicemen.
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.
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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The coup is expected to affect the hunt for Joseph Kony, said the commander of African troops tracking the the fugitive warlord.
But the most peculiar, if not spectacularly bizarre, of all of our relationships was that with Zia Audin, the local warlord in Gardez.
Federal Security Service spokesman Alexander Zdanovich said Maskhadov had Deniyev killed under pressure from the rebel warlord Khattab, who goes by only one name.
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.
There are others that have aligned themselves with a local warlord, but at the same time don't present the type of global jihadist characteristics that one might see out of al Qaeda.
This week, in what looked like retaliation, Salvatore Mancuso, the top warlord, claimed that Francisco Santos, Mr Uribe's vice-president, and Juan Manuel Santos, his defence minister, had both incited paramilitary actions during the 1990s.
Whatever else she might do, she must not afford Zaak free access to her affairs, at least not before she has consolidated her position and fortified it against its inherent weaknesses, which might come to light after she sets the confrontation with the minor warlord and his armed minions into motion.
It claimed thousands of lives as rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), supported by Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, took over the countryside and eventually seized Freetown before being ousted by British and other foreign forces.
Days after Bergdahl went missing, a senior U.S. military official said Bergdahl and the Afghan soldiers were captured by low-level militants and then quickly "sold" to the clan and network led by warlord Siraj Haqqani -- believed to be deeply involved in the action.
Former employees say Ellison keeps a book on his desk about Genghis Khan, the ruthless Mongol warlord.
On Oct. 3-4, 1993, the Blackhawk Down incident took place, during a raid against the forces of warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed.
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.
Russian prosecutors charged three Chechens it claimed were gunmen hired by warlord Khozh-Akhmed Nukhaev, the subject of one of Klebnikov's two biographies.
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