Sentence examples for several warlords from inspiring English sources

With American backing, Mr. Karzai weakened several warlords.

The United States has a forward operating base near Gardez for its search for Taliban and Qaeda renegades, and American money already has improved the living standard of several warlords who, in turn, swear allegiance to the campaign against terrorism.

In "Knots," the country is now run by several warlords, and the fundamentalists of the Union of Islamic Courts — the movement that seized much of southern Somalia and was dispersed just a few months ago — are a lurking menace.

'Several warlords have been killed as they were trying to surrender'.

"He doesn't trust the FARDC at all; several warlords have been killed as they were trying to surrender".

Relations between Colombia and Venezuela were on the mend by late 2008, and several paramilitary warlords were sent to the United States on drug trafficking charges.

I asked him about a C.I.A. program in which he and several other warlords had been tasked to capture and kill Al Qaeda suspects.

The city fell to the alliance not because the Taliban was defeated in battle, but because several Taliban warlords agreed to switch sides.

Mr. Matiullah is one of several semiofficial warlords who have emerged across Afghanistan in recent months, as American and NATO officers try to bolster — and sometimes even supplant — ineffective regular Afghan forces in their battle against the Taliban insurgency.

Just before polling day, several powerful warlords threw their support behind him, including General Abdulrashid Dostum, notorious for his record of human rights abuses and for switching sides, and Ismail Khan, Governor of Herat.

In particular, the report was said to anger Marshal Muhammad Qasim Fahim, the first vice president and a leader of the fundamentalist Jamiat-i-Islami party, which includes several former warlords.