Instead the US and the UK relied on and paid for the services of local warlords.
Peace talks began in Kenya on November 1st, but without several key warlords or much optimism.
In late Jan. 1991, Somali warlords toppled the government of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Separatist conflicts, mutinies, and warlords have bedeviled Georgia since the breakup of the USSR.
American officials have not recognized it since warlords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
The opposition is an uneasy alliance of sects, led by warlords jostling for position.
Mohammad Nayim wants the warlords who ruined his life to be prosecuted no matter where they are now.
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Many of the Afghan warlords have fought both the invading Soviets in the 1980s and later, the Taliban.
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There has even been an attempt to limit the environmentally devastating charcoal trade, which previously enriched unscrupulous warlords.
The local warlords, who probably profit from the trade, pay little heed to Mr Karzai or his police.
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On January 6th, Russia's hawkish interior minister, Anatoly Kulikov, called for air strikes against the bases of Chechen warlords.
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Ultimately piracy in Somalia is unlikely to stop until chronic instability, caused by rival warlords and Islamist fighters, is tackled.
B-52 bombed an area of western Afghanistan in support of American soldiers caught in a battle between rival Afghan warlords.
Both these measures will, by the same token, damage Mr Karzai's relations with the Northern Alliance's warlords, who are mainly Tajiks and Uzbeks.
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Historically, a prominent position grew out of a degree of public trust (with the exceptions of, say, warlords or machine bosses).
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It was the first vote of its kind in the country since warlords toppled military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
DeGennaro said it's because he refuses to bargain with powerful warlords and elders, a common Afghan means of garnering popular support.
For more than 20 years Somalia has seen clan-based warlords, rival politicians and Islamist militants battling for control of the country.
Moreover, one of Mr Karzai's key aims has been to destroy a system under which tribal warlords rule their own province.
General Morgan, one of the most notorious warlords in Somalia, chain-smokes, as his young militia men, sporting sun-glasses and guns, lounge nearby.
Previous peace deals that integrated war criminals into Congo's army, including Ntaganda, reignited conflict soon thereafter as the warlords again behaved lawlessly.
He also exploited a series of battles between warlords in western Afghanistan, bringing about the ousting of Herat's troublesome warlord-governor, Ismail Khan.
NATO's best hope is therefore to sideline him, partly by starving him, and other parvenu warlords, of some of their fat contracts.
Russian officials accuse Chechen warlords of giving armed support to radical Islamists in a bid to overthrow Dagestan's pro-Moscow administration of Magomedali Magomedov.
Since the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia has seen clan-based warlords, Islamist militants and its neighbours all battling for control.
If not, clan warlords, the bane of Somalia for decades, may again come to the fore, with support trickling back to the Shabab.
Muhammad Khatami, Iran's president, says he wants to carry on helping with crop substitution, but the warlords of southern Afghanistan are not interested.
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He was also responsible for a large part of the destruction of Kabul and the rest of the country as were the other warlords.
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Somali has seen more than 20 years of conflict which saw clan-based warlords, rival politicians and Islamist militants battle for control of the country.
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