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Additionally, the Taliban were able to get this far through cutting deals with warlords — a lesson they learned from their failures in 2001.

Experts said armed resistance to the Taliban over the coming months is possible, too, particularly given the weaponry that warlords and their militias have, depending on how the Taliban proceed.

The various mujahideen factions turned on one another, sparking a civil war between warlords that lasted until the Taliban seized Kabul in 1996.

We also cannot allow the old warlords, looters and strongmen that people are fed up with to come back in the name of inclusiveness and a representative government.

In years past, the bedrock of the party’s narrative was rescuing China from the “century of humiliation” wrought by warlords and colonial powers.

Dostum is a warlord par excellence and a classic product of Afghan politics, which is both local and volatile.

He was a Burmese national—resistance fighter, drug smuggler, kidnapper, warlord.

Adventurer journalist Robert Young Pelton is crowdfunding a trip to find African warlord Joseph Kony.

Pelton says he has been tracking the warlord through his many personal contacts on the ground since 1993.

Indeed, in April of this year, the United States offered a reward of $5 million a head for the warlord and some of his top aides.

You deny any knowledge of the Warlord battleship that is being built from these modified plans.

Be that as it may, however, the important thing is that Miotis was the name of this warlord, whatever one may feel about his name.

The warlord waved a hand, and as if by magic the court was emptied but for the guards who never left their posts.