Sentence examples for capital warlords from inspiring English sources

Even in the capital, warlords, strongmen, and corrupt officials are carrying out land grabs with a kind of Wild West impunity.

The United States has been widely reported to have secretly financed the capital's warlords, who fashioned themselves into a counterterrorism alliance to track down and apprehend Al Qaeda elements in Mogadishu.

They have also said that the United States may be ready to abandon its opposition to expanding the international peacekeeping force that now operates only in Kabul, the capital, to curb warlords like Mr. Zadran.

But the government is too weak, corrupt, divided and disorganized to mount a claim beyond Mogadishu, the capital, leaving clan warlords, Islamist militias and proxy forces armed by foreign governments to battle it out for the regions the Shabab are losing.

A spectacular march in four days brought them within ten miles of the capital, Yunnanfu, and warlord Lung Yun (Dragon Cloud) frantically mobilized all available troops for defense.

The Bush administration will convene an international meeting next week on political developments in Somalia, following an abrupt shift in policy this week after Islamists seized control of the Somali capital from U.S.-backed U.S.-backedd militias.

In Nangarhar, the police chief of the provincial capital, a former warlord called Hazrat Ali, says he has sacked several local police chiefs for failing to enforce the ban.Last year, a separate eradication team trained by an American security company was a shambles.

"They will try to achieve reconciliation between the Islamic courts and the other groups". Although Ashara said the government hopes to "work out voluntary disarmament" between the Islamists and the warlord-led militias, reports from outside the capital indicated that the warlords are gearing up to try to retake the city.

The death toll was expected to rise in the most serious flare-up since the militiamen seized control of the Somali capital from U.S.-backed warlords a month ago.

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 5 — After months of fierce fighting, Islamic militias declared Monday that they had taken control of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, defeating the warlords widely believed to be backed by the United States and raising questions about whether the country would head down an extremist path.

THESE arrangements have left almost all Afghanistan outside the capital in the control of warlords who offer only nominal fealty to Mr. Karzai's government.