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"warlord" Definitions
  1. the leader of a military group that is not official and that fights against other groups within a country or an area

451 Sentences With "warlord"

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The state and the warlord can develop an accord that will allow the warlord to one day incorporate his or her territory into the state.
THE black fur hat looked odd on a Libyan warlord.
Their target, a warlord known as Dread Wilme, was killed.
Ugandan soldiers attacked, but the warlord and his forces escaped.
The militants were followers of the Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev.
Space warlord on a quest to gather all six Infinity Stones.
The French usually supported whichever autocrat or warlord was in power.
" O'Rourke wrote pieces for the group under the username "Psychedelic Warlord.
Dr. Seuss's curmudgeonly Grinch, impersonating a Kabuki warlord, comes to mind.
One hundred years later, the warlord spirit is back in Beijing.
She was married off to a warlord, sold as a slave.
Fighters loyal to the country's exiled vice president and warlord, Gen.
The villain this time is a warlord played by Idris Elba.
" In June, 2010, the subcommittee released a report, titled "Warlord, Inc.
They're about the cause — the racism, the warlord, the pipeline protest.
The warlord who wins can steal the oil and pay his troops.
Just yesterday, CNN discovered that an alleged warlord was driving in Virginia.
In theory, France and the U.S. were no longer backing a warlord.
Only one trial, that of the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, was underway.
The big baddie is a murderous warlord named Krall (Idris Elba, masked).
For government minister Muhannad Younis, Libya's problems go far beyond the warlord.
In one of the opening scenes, Lois is interviewing an African warlord.
Instead, the warlord repaid the debt by handing over a Boeing 727.
It's about six ninjas, and then there's an evil warlord named Garmadon.
How about the slaying of a Chechen warlord with a golden gun.
In his early book "Omoo" (1847), a workhouse foundling becomes a Pacific warlord.
Here's just a little bit of what is still online from Psychedelic Warlord.
In 733, during a period of peace, Charles Taylor, a warlord, became president.
They claimed Osmayev and other plotters were linked to a Chechen rebel warlord.
On April 4th Libya's strongest warlord ordered his men to march on Tripoli.
His target, Ntabo Ntaberi Cheka, a former warlord, sits in a cell nearby.
There were 13 other candidates, including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a blood-stained former warlord.
In Kandahar, a southern province, religious students began fighting against a corrupt local warlord.
Hamid Karzai, the former Afghan president, proved unreliable and too fond of warlord allies.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Militia forces loyal to the Afghan vice president, the former warlord Gen.
Reeves's brother-in-law Charles Taylor is a warlord and former president of Liberia.
His mission is complicated when his friend Shinpei (Naoki Kobayashi) sides with a warlord.
Suppose you are the young son of a former warlord who has just died.
Hopefully BfA doesn't go the way of Warlord of Draenor and fizzle out almost immediately.
Don't worry about it; most of us have forgotten about the brutal African warlord, too.
Some residents nicknamed the warlord "Rocketyar" for his faction's frequent rocket strikes on the city.
O'Rourke went by the handle "Psychedelic Warlord," as revealed by Reuters, which broke the story.
This is the force animating Sauron, the sorcerer-warlord and great enemy of Middle-earth.
Bemba, a former warlord, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on March 21, 2016.
His CDC writing from nearly three decades ago, under the handle "Psychedelic Warlord," remains online.
But that country only stalled its collapse when Charles Taylor, a brutal warlord, consolidated power.
General Dostum, a former warlord, has been accused of human rights abuses in the past.
Things are little better in the east, ruled by a general-turned-warlord called Khalifa Haftar.
Some residents nicknamed the warlord "Rocketyar" because of his faction's frequent rocket strikes on the city.
Khalifa Haftar, Libya's most powerful warlord, attacked Tripoli, which is controlled by the UN-backed government.
There, the warlord-­turned-politician Ismail Khan makes time for her, but even he is gloomy.
They are decorated with embossed and colourfully painted friezes of fanged warlord deities and bound prisoners.
A subplot between a tribal warlord and a John Oliver-lookalike is uncomfortable and unfunny. However!
As a warlord and a drug lord, Salvatore Mancuso was a bigger player than Mr. Giraldo.
Ahmed Shah Massoud, an Afghan warlord, was assassinated in 21916 by two men posing as journalists.
A kind of Neo-lite, he used the handle "Psychedelic Warlord," looking for free video games.
Max and Furiosa attempt to outrun and escape the warlord Immortan Joe and his deadly caravan.
In 1988's "Visions From the Last Crusade," Psychedelic Warlord has a bit of fiction about murder.
That plan succeeded, but Mr Ghani has had to put up with the erratic warlord ever since.
Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former Congolese warlord, had his conviction for crimes against humanity overturned on appeal.
A separate government in the east, dominated by the country's strongest warlord, Khalifa Haftar, shuns the GNA.
Max Ohr operated a tattoo parlor inside the space and described himself as "warlord" of Satya Yuga.
He was the age of a high school freshman when he joined the ranks of a warlord.
A former warlord who became president of Liberia, Mr. Taylor led the country from 1997 to 2003.
His father, Vicente, was related to Ramon Durano, a notorious warlord in the central province of Cebu.
Though Marshall Fahim carried out horrific atrocities during his tenure as a warlord, thousands attended his funeral.
Once, in Kabul, the President scheduled fifteen minutes for Ismail Khan, a powerful warlord from western Afghanistan.
I could even be a post-apocalyptic warlord if I happen to find the BILLY on sale.
Tracing the journey made by the 22th-century Mongolian warlord, the event presents a series of unique challenges.
It has given equipment, money and intelligence for the military's hunt for Lord's Resistance Army warlord Joseph Kony.
The RSF reports to Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, its deputy head, a warlord who goes by the nickname Hemedti.
That may have contributed to the acquittals of Mr Gbagbo and of Jean-Pierre Bemba, a Congolese warlord.
But as they do so, a warlord has begun to amass power in The Circle, threatening their progress.
Instead, he was thrown into the back of a pickup truck and taken prisoner by a local warlord.
Mark Nutsch was dropped into Afghanistan where they attached themselves to the army of the Uzbek warlord Gen.
The sentence marked the first time a warlord had faced justice for crimes committed in the latest conflict.
It's the latest land grab by the 76-year-old warlord, who served under former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Two rival sons of a warlord, each hungry for title and land, initially agree to settle their dispute.
That is less implausible than it sounds: the warlord has easy access to a mobile phone in jail.
The film follows a battalion of soldiers sent on a mission to free innocent civilians from an ethnic warlord.
LIFE IN Libya's capital seems calm, even as a warlord backed by ragtag forces bids to take the city.
Forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar, the warlord who already controls eastern Libya, are nearing the country's capital of Tripoli.
A former warlord in the Central African Republic was jailed after a conviction for his involvement in multiple murders.
Another coalition-backed warlord is on the U.S. list of designated terrorists due to his ties to Al Qaeda.
Another coalition-backed warlord is on the U.S. list of designated terrorists due to his ties to al-Qaida.
First, the attack occurred in the northern stronghold of Atta Mohammad Noor, the governor and warlord of Balkh province.
Diplomatic posts have gone unfilled and a task force based in CAR tracking warlord Joseph Kony left last year.
The war ended after Charles G. Taylor, Liberia's warlord-turned-president, stepped down and left the country in 2003.
The men said they worked for Mr. Dheere, and they claimed he owed the warlord money, Mr. Salim recounted.
Dave Franco provides the voice of a school-age ninja who challenges his father (Justin Theroux), an evil warlord.
In Congo, I saw a tiny Polish nun stand up to a warlord because of her faith and values.
A warlord, a novelist, a diplomat, a centenarian and other exceptional women our overseas correspondents wrote about in 2017.
There are a few different versions of it, but they all agree that the warlord died on his wedding night.
The long-bearded Loshkariov, who is also a professor of medicine, dresses as a "Voievode," a kind of Russian warlord.
The very same unit Troy had saved recovered his body in Iraq after a local warlord claimed he had it.
Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former warlord, returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo to contest presidential elections later this year.
Meet Brûz the Chopper, Shadow of War's conspicuously Australian orc warlord, and enjoy his jocular assessments on life in Mordor.
Daenerys was a pawn, married off to a Dothraki warlord to increase her brother's chances of reclaiming the Iron Throne.
If so, Mr Barzani could thus secure his position as Kurdistan's pre-eminent warlord, and prolong his one-man rule.
Michelle Yeoh reprises her role as warrior Yu Shu Lien, tasked with defending a special sword from an evil warlord.
She writes of the Danish warlord Thorkell the Tall, who marched his army up both banks in the 11th century.
Aichi prefecture markets itself as the "warlords' hometown," as the region was home to the feudal-era warlord Oda Nobunaga.
Before the movie begins, we learn an "African warlord" spent 223 years fighting the aliens in hand-to-hand combat.
Drew decided he wanted to achieve the rare "High Warlord PVP" title, part of World of Warcraft's in-game achievements.
That is unprecedented, more in keeping with a warlord than with a major party nominee, and it leaves me saddened.
Trump is now presiding over America as if it were a failed state, and he is its avenging cultural warlord.
Trump has resentments and interests, but not ideology; he governs more as a postmodern warlord than a traditional party leader.
"His men have gone on rampage injuring people here and there," complained the former warlord of the former soccer player.
The warlord Joseph Kony, in the early years of his insurgency in Uganda, conscripted adults for his Lord's Resistance Army.
The UAE was accused of smuggling military equipment to Libyan warlord Khalifa Hifter by the UN Security Council in November.
Another word for that is a warlord, which we use not as a value judgment but as a definitional matter.
Facebook Is Challenged To Ban Military Leader Accused Of Killings Aarti Shahani looks at the Facebook presence of warlord Lt. Gen.
You will not shoot aliens, or level up abilities, or kill the warlord who set you on a quest for vengeance.
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You'll recall that she's the widow of a Dothraki warlord (Khal Drogo), so perhaps that will smooth the way for her.
Some members of Sudan's military and intelligence service view the RSF as an untrained militia under the command of a warlord.
The former warlord was acquitted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the appeals court at the ICC last week.
Wade's best friend Aech is an African American female but is able to be a male muscled warlord in the OASIS.
Such statements tend to raise fears of a potential comeback for the warlord, one grounded in a populist message of equality.
Warlord is trying to rule a female robot, Ash (Suki Waterhouse), who may find her "soul" courtesy of Jeffrey Wahlberg's Prince.
Others, such as Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, a bloodstained warlord, threatened to resort to violence if they concluded the poll had been rigged.
It would be easy for the caged warlord to talk to his troops, hundreds of whom still lurk in the bush.
Still, the proceedings were broadcast live, across the country, on radio and TV. Blahyi was the first former warlord to testify.
"All those are helping a warlord, but we are responding to an invitation of the country's legitimate government," Mr. Erdogan said.
She'd been captured by the interdimensional warlord Shao Kahn, and was chained up n a background in the game's final battle.
The airstrike on the Tajoura detention center, on the outskirts of Tripoli, was the deadliest strike since April, when warlord Gen.
The accents... Momoa's also been cast as another ruthless warrior — who can forget his turn as scary warlord Khal Drogo in GoT.
In 1990's "My Day With the Dentist," Psychedelic Warlord goes to the dentist (O'Rourke apparently has a thing for public dentistry).
Two prominent critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin have found themselves in the crosshairs of the notorious Chechen warlord-leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
All that said, many should be relieved that Trump didn't nominate a warlord or even a regular politician to run the FBI.
Michel Aoun, a Maronite Christian and former warlord, became president of Lebanon, ending an impasse that lasted two-and-a-half years.
But hours after he arrived Khalifa Haftar, the warlord who controls much of the country, launched an offensive to seize the city.
In the group, ORourke wrote online essays under the pseudonym Psychedelic Warlord that could provide fodder for political supporters and foes alike.
Once referred to as a "quintessential warlord" by the U.S. State Department, Dostum has long been accused of serious human rights abuses.
Those old Troll Warlord games, back when he was good, that often saw me murder the entire enemy team within 15 minutes.
When U.S. officials in Kabul press for reform, warlord acolytes go running to American officials in Washington D.C., to relieve the pressure.
And in March, it convicted a former warlord from the Democratic Republic of Congo for using rape as a weapon of war.
The former warlord had led the MLC party before his arrest to become one of the country's four vice presidents in 2003.
Bisie – the largest tin mine – was regularly targeted by militias and was once held by forces loyal to warlord Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka.
He is the author of "Counter Jihad: The American Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria" (2018) and "The Last Warlord" (2013).
In the group, O'Rourke wrote online essays under the pseudonym "Psychedelic Warlord" that could provide fodder for political supporters and foes alike.
Sedgwick Davis, while acknowledging Bell's constant support, says she's also been incredibly changed by the experience she chronicles in To Stop A Warlord.
As well as dropping music with his punk band Död Mark, he released two more albums, 2016's Warlord and 2017's Stranger.
"[Warlord] was actually set out to be a mixtape," he says, meaning that the tape was meant to be released for free online.
He likened Cirillo to Joseph Kony, Uganda's notorious warlord and leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, who's been on the run for years.
The Libyan government blamed an air strike by forces under the command of Khalifa Haftar, a warlord who controls much of eastern Libya.
A warlord capable of ruthlessness, he was also a reformer who wanted education to free his fellow Chinese Muslims from isolation and poverty.
Floyd Mayweather has a new member of The Money Team -- Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov ... an alleged violent warlord who unapologetically hates gay people.
Swedish rapper Yung Lean surprise dropped a new mixtape called Frost God late last night, following his LP Warlord from earlier this year.
At least hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war who had surrendered to forces loyal to an American-backed warlord were killed.
At the time, Machiavelli was an envoy for the Florentine Republic, negotiating to keep the infamous warlord Cesare Borgia from attacking the city.
The said it was particularly hard to find someone to portray Khal Drogo, the Dothraki warlord played by Jason Momoa on season one.
Momoa portrayed Khal Drogo, the Dothraki warlord and Daenerys Targaryen's husband, until the character's untimely death at the end of the first season.
Other candidates include Ghani's partner in government, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, Soviet-trained former intelligence chief Hanif Atmar and onetime warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Back in 1990, Mr. Johnson was a warlord, the head of the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia, and gunning for President Doe.
Mr. Franco plays Warlord, a postapocalyptic villain he essays with relish that sometimes seems untoward, particularly in his hostile interactions with female characters.
Even Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the warlord who recently made a peace deal with the Afghan government, spoke about it on his return to Kabul.
It too struggles with effectively holding territory, with various clan and warlord militias and semi-official police forces most frequently performing that function.
Afghan leaders sent combat forces to capture a belligerent warlord, but many critics believed the deadly raid was a political stunt gone awry.
The International Court, based in The Hague, handed down its first sentence in 2012, after convicting the former Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.
Blahyi has written five books; a memoir titled "The Redemption of an African Warlord" was published in 24 by a small Christian press.
Mr. Noor is a former warlord and longtime governor of Balkh who was also removed by Mr. Ghani in another protracted, messy showdown.
He had staged his own supposed kidnapping by a Brazilian warlord, sending word to Ferrara that he needed a ransom paid for his release.
Then there's the militaristic Warlord faction, who want to rebuild the imperial army so that it's not the brittle shell that it has become.
You, as Max, are tasked with recovering your stolen V8 Interceptor from a warlord whose dominion you have inadvertently stumbled upon in your travels.
Genji's brother, Hanzo, also got a skin inspired by Chinese history: Huang Zhong, which is based on a Chinese warlord from the third century.
Former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, whose fighters killed thousands in Kabul during the bloody civil war of the 1990s, joined the presidential race on Saturday.
New on VICE Sports: The Serbian Warlord Who Led His Club to the Champions League And that's only going to get bigger in 2016.
And for this scene, all your character can do is lie gasping on the ground while the warlord Ghaul kicks you into the abyss.
But neither do the young fighters who protect the city of Ninjago from an evil four-armed warlord named Garmadon, voiced by Justin Theroux.
The warlord in chief had already gone out of his way to protect a Navy SEAL member who'd been accused of committing war crimes.
In 1928, General Shi Yousan, a warlord, tried to burn the temple down, because his enemy had used it as a base of command.
Abdul Rashid Dostum, left for Turkey on Friday in what Afghan and Western officials suggested could be another long exile for the former warlord.
Born to royalty in Burma, Olive Yang, who died on July 31, rejected her birthright to become a cross-dressing warlord and opium trafficker.
Among them is the warlord Salah Badi, who has previously allied with Islamist extremists and who is under United Nations sanctions for undermining stability.
Take the police officer currently in treatment at a government facility, who believes that he is the notorious Afghan politician and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
This has allowed people smugglers to operate with impunity as the internationally-recognized Tripoli government is challenged by powerful warlord Khalifa Haftar in the east.
The whole idea of democracy is that we choose our fate instead of handing over governance to a czar, dictator, queen, high priest or warlord.
Check the video and spend your last couple of bucks on Schockglatze's new Warlord EP (including remix by Hyperdub's Ikonika) out on Through My Speakers
The dystopic warlord might not be ripping imprisoned women's T-shirts off in cramped cells, but he's coercing them into physical relationships all the same.
Ali confirmed that Boakai's campaign had met with fourth placed candidate Alexander Cummings and ex-warlord-turned-senator Prince Johnson, who was in fifth place.
The appeals court at The Hague on Friday ruled in a majority opinion to acquit the former warlord, finding that Bemba had been erroneously convicted.
A native of northern Russia, Mr. Pavlov had worked in a carwash before crossing the border into Ukraine in 2014 and becoming a notorious warlord.
The International Criminal Court sentenced a former Congolese warlord guilty of ordering massacres, sexual slavery, and conscripting child soldiers to 30 years in prison Thursday.
My other friend, Will, who was also a bit of a warlord, was on crutches from a recent moped accident and started swinging his crutches.
His first experience with owning an airplane came when a warlord, whose troops he had supplied with food and fuel, could not pay the bill.
If you're not on first-name terms with an opium-slinging warlord, fear not: everything shop owners need, wholesale and warehouse style, is on Hydra.
The LRA, run by warlord Joseph Kony, is known for massacring and mutilating civilians as well as abducting children to use as soldiers or slaves.
In a Ukrainian security clearance form, Mr. Kulyk admitted having ties to a warlord in eastern Ukraine accused of working for the Russian intelligence services.
In 1993, Somalia's problems drew the world's attention after 18 American soldiers were killed in an operation aimed at capturing the powerful Somali warlord Gen.
An Afghan spokesman says the country&aposs first vice president, a former Uzbek warlord, is returning home after more than a year of living in Turkey.
On June 8th the International Criminal Court (ICC) acquitted Jean-Pierre Bemba, a warlord who has spent the past ten years in prison in The Hague.
When you name a track "Warlord," you better hope you come correct with something to get nuts over, and justify the punch of the song title.
Idris Elba had been expected to score a nomination for his performance as an African warlord in "Beasts of No Nation," but he was passed over.
Putin has been "out-Putined," and while he has avoided an all-out clash with his Chechen warlord, he may well regret this in the future.
" But she could be upset by Lupita Nyong'o, also an Oscar winner, making her Broadway debut as a girl captured by a Liberian warlord in "Eclipsed.
One such hero is Nadia Murad, a young Yazidi woman, whose parents and brothers were killed as she was sold from one ISIS warlord to another.
Congo's constitutional court upheld the electoral commission's decision to exclude the former warlord from the polls because of a pending case at the International Criminal Court.
In 2016, President Ghani's government granted immunity to Hekmatyar but the former warlord has been critical of his administration and the parliamentary election process in 2018.
Mr. Dostum's record as a warlord accused of mass murders during Afghanistan's civil war has been compounded by his threats to turn against the government here.
Victory is when they stop -- remember, the warlord-ism in China right now -- and Xi is under I think tremendous pressure -- is the state on industries.
Of the rest, contenders include incumbent President Ashraf Ghani, his 2014 rival and uneasy partner in government Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
The greatest warlord in China might just get under the skin of the greatest general in China, and just working together they increasingly infuriate one another.
Hong Kong (CNN)When feudal Japan's most powerful warlord Nobunaga Oda met Yasuke, a black slave-turned-retainer, in 15903, he believed the man was a god.
As we learn in "5318008," she has been captured by the jock tribe led by the football player-turned-teen warlord Turbo Bro Jock (Riverdale's Cody Kearsley).
While Lean recorded a rough cut of Warlord over Sherman's beats, Gud returned to Sweden and broke off almost all contact with the rest of Sad Boys.
But with money tight—and Barron's father and business partner hawking an early version of Warlord online—the mixtape suddenly needed to become a commercially available album.
While in the Florida city recording 2016 album Warlord, according to a Fader cover story, he became heavily addicted to a stew of drugs: Xanax, cocaine, weed.
In 1997, during a period of peace, Charles Taylor, a warlord, became president, having made it clear that he would go back to war if not elected.
To adapt Jane Austen again, we are all fools in love, but especially so if we cuckold a warlord in one of the world's most violent countries.
The Daily Mail and Perez Hilton have noted that Ceca, who is a popular folk singer in the Balkans, is the widow of the late warlord Arkan.
"The conviction of [Congolese warlord] Thomas Lubanga arguably had a deterrent effect on the use of child soldiers," Bill Schabas, professor at Britain's Middlesex University, told Reuters.
He is backed by Mr Kabila's two biggest adversaries, Jean-Pierre Bemba (a former warlord) and Moïse Katumbi (a tycoon), both of whom were barred from standing.
Many were ANC members who objected to the ways of Robert Mzobe, an ANC councillor accused of corruption, and Bongani Hlope, a local warlord who terrorised residents.
Police stepped up security at Kabul airport on Wednesday for the arrival of Afghan warlord Faryadi Zardad, deported from Britain after serving a prison sentence for torture.
"The very fact of having a warlord face a judge is already a good example to help others understand that their actions will have consequences," she said.
Tunde, for example, receives his invitation to participate in the Game from the hand of General Iyabo, a cruel warlord with powerful influence in the Nigerian government.
The special forces might prove to be a less coherent force than currently assumed, or they could be overwhelmed by the variety of warlord forces against them.
As a teen-ager, did he produce, under the alias Psychedelic Warlord, jejune poems and stories, including one whose narrator enjoyed running down children with a car?
The dangerous ongoing showdown between the Kabul government and Atta Mohammad Noor, a warlord-turned-governor of Balkh province, is inescapably about two things: money and muscle.
It even enlisted the help of a former warlord whose methods are so violent that the government, battling him in the past, once sentenced him to death.
But Ms. Jah, who was wonderful as the captive bride of an African warlord in "Eclipsed," is just as good as another kind of sex slave here.
But when his older child (Markus Rygaard) exacts revenge against a bully at school, and the warlord comes to his clinic seeking treatment, Anton's calm facade cracks.
We looked at a shadowy company that racked up millions of followers with its posts talking up a warlord or promoting the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
We looked at a shadowy company that racked up millions of followers with its posts talking up a warlord or promoting the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
On a recent Sunday morning in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, a few dozen people gathered in a tin-roofed church to hear a former warlord preach.
Those writings, which came under the pseudonym "Psychedelic Warlord" and included a piece of fiction from a killer's point of view, were revealed in a Reuters report.
The state of play: Libya's official government is struggling to maintain control of the country after warlord Khalifa Hifter launched an offensive in eastern Libya in April.
" Psychedelic Warlord purports to conduct a joint interview along with a Jewish member of the collective of a neo-Nazi in 1988's "INTERVIEW WITH NEO-NAZI 'AUSDERAU.
Black Hawk Down also started with a mission to capture leaders of an insurgency, lieutenants of the Habr Gidr clan led by a warlord named Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
"It really felt like a people's movement, because everyone felt embraced and welcomed and there were no special concessions made for some warlord or some politician," he said.
Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, a warlord accused of overseeing mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo,gave himself up to UN peacekeepers in the east of the country.
Part Mao, part Castro, part gun-toting Filipino warlord, the avowedly socialist mayor ruled his city as a lethal enemy of wrongdoers and a champion of the poor.
Despite announcing its decision to pull troops out, the United States has said it would maintain training for the regional forces to prevent warlord Kony's rebels from regrouping.
A new "Protection and Stability Council", headed by a former warlord, Abdul Rasoul Sayyaf, has been set up as a rallying point against Mr Ghani's emollience towards Pakistan.
The cast of Marvel heroes reunites in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War as they team up against the galactic warlord Thanos, played by a motion-captured Josh Brolin.
FOR MONTHS General Khalifa Haftar, Libya's most powerful warlord, has besieged Tripoli, struggling to wrest control of the capital from the UN-backed "government of national accord" (GNA).
But Westerners found him dignified and eloquent, and he had been chosen at a conference in Bonn earlier that month in part because he wasn't just another warlord.
KABUL (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council has dropped sanctions against Afghan strongman Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, potentially paving the way for the notorious warlord to return openly to Afghanistan.
The Taliban did not invite bin Laden to Afghanistan in 1996 – that merit belongs to then-Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and (current U.S.-backed warlord) Abdul Rasoul Sayyaf.
Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the warlord leader of Chechnya, is appearing on a Russian reality TV show that echoes "The Apprentice" in an effort to change his brutal reputation.
Once a local warlord and later governor of the province, Mr. Keram remains well connected with the Jamiat-i-Islami party, the major political force in the north.
"And here are our child soldiers," the chief of staff for one local warlord who calls himself Force chirped on a tour of his militia's compound in Bangui.
Mr. Ghani's aides used it in their lobbying against Mr. Noor, arguing that the former warlord was not only against the Afghan president, but also his American allies.
Afghanistan: A warlord in the hub of Mazar-i-Sharif escaped capture in a dramatic and deadly raid that turned a relatively safe city into a battle zone.
Bill Clinton deployed Delta Force members to neutralize the Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, but aborted the mission after militiamen dragged American corpses through the streets of Mogadishu.
When he discovered that the Minister of Defense, the Tajik warlord Mohammed Fahim, was padding his payroll with tens of thousands of "ghost" troops, Ghani slashed Fahim's budget.
All are giving evidence in the trial of Ntabo Ntaberi Cheka, a warlord from eastern Congo who faces charges of recruiting child soldiers, mass rape and other atrocities.
A previous governor of Panjshir Province, Mr. Keram has a long history as a jihadi warlord but no known sports experience before his involvement with the soccer federation.
The government is offered a $19,000 a year salary to be part of a "warlord tourism" drive in the lead-up to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
But Reuters reported that the t-files under the pseudonym were from O'Rourke, and in at least one instance, Psychedelic Warlord refers to himself as "Robert," O'Rourke's given name.
The so-called McGuffin, the thing that everyone is struggling over, came down to five wives who were basically the breeding stock, as it were, to a decaying warlord.
Even Ms Sirleaf, in 2011, won the support of Prince Johnson, a former warlord known for overseeing the torture and murder of the former dictator, Samuel Doe, in 1990.
Beto O'Rourke, current presidential candidate, was once "Psychedelic Warlord," member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group in the late 1980s, according to Joseph Menn in Reuters.
THE INTERNECINE fighting in Libya is often reduced to east versus west: Khalifa Haftar, the warlord who controls the former, against a United Nations-backed government in the latter.
Paris's action was co-ordinated not with the rest of the EU, but with Chad's brutal government and Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord who controls swathes of his country.
Here's how Twitch describes it: Broadcasters take on the role of a warlord in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and lead their viewers in battle against another broadcaster-led team.
But now the paper is calling Mr Gou a domineering, wilful "warlord of business" with close ties to China who it says has antagonised Sharp's management with its tactics.
Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century warlord better known as Dracula, remains a potent political symbol for Romanians for his brutal persecution of the corrupt ruling class and thieves.
Ezra Levant of right-wing propaganda site The Rebel accused Monsef of lying so she could "rule over Afghans as some lady warlord" by pursuing a political career there.
From the east and south, the army of Khalifa Haftar, Libya's most potent warlord, is moving on the coastal city of Sirte, which is controlled by some 5,000 jihadists.
Eventually, a shop owner offered him odd jobs and work as a driver for him and his sister, who Mr. Salim said worked for Mohammed Dheere, a Somali warlord.
He has brought together Fayez al-Serraj (pictured left), the head of the GNA, and General Khalifa Haftar, the country's strongest warlord, who dominates a rival government in eastern Libya.
Related: Alleged Liberian Warlord 'Jungle Jabbah' Caught After Hiding for Years in the US Gambia's Information Minister Sheriff Bojan defended the government's response to the recent protests, according to VOA.
Running eight episodes in total, the show is will iron out more of the details surrounding Hanna's identity and upbringing — namely, how did she come to be such a warlord?
Some of the archived writings from Psychedelic Warlord lean toward the personal, which you'd expect for someone who has kept a reasonably active Medium account over the last few months.
Jean-Pierre Bemba, an opposition leader and former warlord barred from standing, says it will take an average of six minutes, partly because so many voters are unused to technology.
And when mounting international pressure forced him to call an election, he blocked his two biggest rivals (Moïse Katumbi and Jean-Pierre Bemba, a tycoon and a warlord) from standing.
It named the slain warlord in a statement as Gasan Abudullayev, releasing pictures of him posing in front of a black flag with Arabic slogans and clutching an assault rifle.
And, of course, we can't ignore "white guy with camera" who accidentally walked in during a powerful speech being given by a warlord during a film about African child soldiers.
The warlord, a Salafi known as Sheikh Aboul Abbas, has received millions of dollars from the coalition to distribute among anti-Houthi factions, according to his aide, Adel al-Ezzi.
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - International war crimes judges awarded $6.63 million in compensation on Friday to child soldiers recruited by convicted Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga - the largest reparation of it kind.
There, the Americans warily join forces with General Dostum (a charismatic Navid Negahban), a warlord who they hope will join them in their fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Social media could help bring visibility to issues that might otherwise never cross Americans' radar — like the matter of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony — but it didn't necessarily bring about change.
After one episode, Mr. Ghani had to personally travel to the villa of one angry former warlord in a visit that was seen as an apology for his uncle's remarks.
Johnson Sirleaf's morally questionable calculations — her early support of the warlord Charles Taylor being only the most obvious — begin to blur as we blow past them with barely a glance.
What can make this harder, Ms. Mukhopadhyay pointed out, is when there is still just enough of a central state to oppose these warlord-driven movements in organic state building.
As that question pertains to the Stop Kony campaign — an online push to fight back against Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony — the warlord's organization is still, according to Newsweek, abducting children.
Abdul Rashid Dostum, a former Uzbek warlord, and his entourage were unharmed, but more than 70 other people were wounded, according to Hashmat Stanekzai, spokesman for the Kabul&aposs police chief.
The Kree warlord and leader of the Accusers has yet to meet Thanos at this point and is simply trying to win the Kree-Skrull war for his fellow Kree people.
The 22-year-old rose from warlord to military commander to prime minister at the end of the country's lengthy civil war, before Syrian warplanes bombed him into exile in 21.
He is, admittedly, 81 years old and a former Christian general-cum-warlord, but Michel Aoun (pictured) has made himself acceptable to the country's three main groups: Christians, Shias and Sunnis.
Other candidates include Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, a warlord who subjected Kabul to indiscriminate artillery bombardment in the 1990s, and Ahmad Wali Massoud, the brother of Mr Hekmatyar's chief foe at the time.
She might even be in on the joke; she tells Baron Cohen that because the warlord recognized her — he was on his way to massacre a village — she saved 6,000 lives.
The Soviet idealist — some would say warlord — took regular swipes at his superiors and had envisioned building his own neo-socialist "Cossack" republic centered in the depressed mining town of Stakhanov.
The return of Hekmatyar, a former prime minister, comes eight months after the government signed a peace deal with representatives of Hezb-e-Islami -- the insurgent faction led by the warlord.
This history includes an October 1993 incident in which rocket-propelled grenades downed two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters taking part in a raid targeting the forces of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has allowed the ICC to send back a warlord, Germain Katanga, to face further charges at home after serving a sentence handed down at The Hague.
Thirteen years earlier, members of a family troupe of acrobats who gave a command performance for a local warlord and his family died in a fire deliberately set in the theater.
Mao brooked no dissent, insisting on controlling everybody's minds; he often claimed to be a terrifying blend of Marx and the first Qin emperor, a brutal unifying warlord of ancient times.
Although Digger Harkness — played in the Suicide movie by Jai Courtney — was locked up by The Flash, in this hypothetical he'd face off against the aquatic superhero (and former Dothraki warlord).
He's even received a boost from President Trump, who, in an apparent reversal of US policy, praised the warlord by phone just as his troops were launching an offensive on Tripoli.
The warlord, who'd taken over an abandoned mine, tossed me into the pit and gave me a simple task: convince a monster down below to continue helping with the mining work.
A cow skull hangs in the hallway as a reminder to those familiar with the group's underground origins — like O'Rourke himself, another early member once known by his handle Psychedelic Warlord.
In 621, the temple gained some favor, the story goes, when a band of 13 Shaolin monks kept a Chinese prince in power by fighting off an enemy warlord for him.
Warm up with this World News question, then take them all here: In March 2012, a controversial video about a Ugandan warlord went viral on YouTube, sparking what fleetingly popular phrase?
In its first known appearance, the Koh-i-Noor adorned the famous Peacock Throne of the Mughal emperor in Delhi, but it was plundered by a Persian warlord named Nader Shah.
Janson said Jammeh may be wary of taking up Liberia's offer, as it handed over Liberian warlord Charles Taylor to the International Criminal Court after he sought asylum in the country.
Then there are Prince Johnson, a former warlord who videotaped himself ordering his forces to cut off the ears of the former president Samuel Doe while Mr. Johnson sipped a beer; Benoni Urey, a former ally of Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president who is serving a 50-year sentence in a British prison after being convicted of war crimes; and George Dweh, another former warlord with six children, named Georgetta, George, George, Georgina, George Jr. and Georgecee.
The warlord and the insurgent group he leads are clearly an avatar for the dozens of militias that have been fighting the central government for decades, demanding more autonomy for downtrodden minorities.
An amateur analysis here suggests this is not fiction that is praising murder so much as a fictional criticism of a culture Psychedelic Warlord was not super fond of (see diaries above).
Liberian warlord Charles Taylor used the Firestone plantation as a base of operations throughout the first Liberian civil war, which lasted from 1989 to 1997 and ultimately killed more than 300,000 people.
He noted that "escaping patriarchy" is currently part of a cultural zeitgeist that includes films like Oscar-winner Mad Max: Fury Road, which depicts women escaping—and then overthrowing—a patriarchal warlord.
Her husband Will Smith, who stars in the football injury drama "Concussion," and Idris Elba, who portrayed an African warlord in "Beasts of No Nation," were among black actors snubbed this year.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government signed a draft peace deal on Thursday with a small insurgent faction led by a warlord who has been designated a "global terrorist" by the United States.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton did the same in Somalia after 18 US troops were killed in a chaotic shootout the previous year with a warlord militia in a local civil war.
This unleashed a big counternarcotics operation and then a bloody paramilitary power struggle, at the end of which Mr. Giraldo's "resistance front" suffered a hostile takeover by another warlord, Rodrigo Tovar-Pupo.
In December, he hired a firm of Washington lobbyists to burnish his image as a potential future leader of his country, and to counter critics who denounce him as a crude warlord.
Hundreds of young people danced on Wednesday to the beat of West African highlife music blaring from generator-powered speakers outside the headquarters of supporters of the imprisoned warlord Charles G. Taylor.
Adding to the political chaos is the imminent return to Kabul of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a longtime warlord and part of the insurgency with which Mr. Ghani signed a peace deal last fall.
After working as a medical doctor in his twenties, Abdullah came into politics - and war - with the anti-Taliban resistance hero and warlord Ahmad Shah Massoud, assassinated two days before the Sept.
The ex-wife of warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor, now imprisoned in the UK for war crimes committed in Sierra Leone, is the running mate of another favorite: former soccer star George Weah.
A spokesperson for O'Rourke's presidential campaign did not immediately respond to a request to confirm that all Cult of the Dead Cow writings from Psychedelic Warlord were in fact written by the candidate.
The Dothraki warlord may have died at the end of the HBO show's seminal first season, but his inimitable likeness lives on in the form of Jason Momoa, the actor who played him.
A hoard of 40,000 ICC documents leaked to the French investigative website Mediapart reveals that Jolie once offered to act as human bait in a trap to arrest brutal Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony.
Libya's UN-backed government is calling on the Trump administration to pressure its Middle Eastern allies to abandon warlord Khalifa Haftar, whose military offensive has stalled in the suburbs of the capital, Tripoli.
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A Dutch businessman convicted in April of selling weapons to ex-Liberian president and warlord Charles Taylor was arrested in South Africa on a Dutch warrant, officials said on Friday.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Democratic Republic of Congo's jailing of a warlord for sexual slavery shows it is cracking down on a longstanding culture of impunity, rights groups and lawyers said on Wednesday.
Sometimes I was the warlord of a powerful Gallic tribal empire, ruling over a land of free tribesmen and a very, very small class of educated "citizens" generating commerce income and technological progress.
Her husband Will Smith, who stars in the football injury drama "Concussion," and Idris Elba, who portrayed an African warlord in "Beasts of No Nation," were among the black actors shunned this year.
For many women, the jirga got off to a dismaying start when Mr. Ghani appointed as chairman Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf, a combative former warlord known for his harsh views on women's rights.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - A wanted warlord in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo has surrendered, five years after he escaped from prison following his conviction for crimes against humanity, the provincial governor said on Wednesday.
Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, for example, rose to power by collaborating with Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers, then turned warlord when the Soviets left, switching sides again and again in Afghanistan's turbulent politics.
The former warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who now serves as vice president of Afghanistan, awarded stars to many of the men closest to him, and even printed his own currency to pay them.
Oh wait—turns out I can, because it's created and directed by Boondocks co-director LeSean Thomas, and inspired by the true story of an African samurai who fought alongside a Japanese warlord.
What was intended as a simple raid and capture of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid went wrong when Somali fighters shot down two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and the extraction became a rescue mission.
One theory is that Mr. Zerkani was recommended to the militant group's leadership in Syria by Fatima Aberkan, a friend of the wife of the Qaeda militant who killed Mr. Massoud, the Afghan warlord.
As evidence of this global longevity, Rankine refers to frescos from the second century B.C. in India's Ajanta Caves and umbrellas buried with the warlord Wang Kuang dated to 25 B.C. discovered in China.
Season 3 picks up at the end of the ninth century, as Uhtred (Alexander Dreymon), a warlord with major identity issues, is forced to battle invading Danes for the ailing King Alfred (David Dawson).
The case is testing the government's resolve to deliver justice in the face of a potentially dangerous showdown between a powerful former warlord and the shaky coalition administration of which he is a part.
There was also the name of Frankish warlord Charles Martel, who turned back the Islamic forces of Abdul Rahman at Poitiers in the eighth century -- a figure who has become a resurgent fascist symbol.
In entertainment news, "Avengers: Endgame" breaks box office records, proving that now, more than ever, people crave stories about time-traveling superheroes using magic stones to defeat a genocidal intergalactic warlord with no neck.
He may well be aware of the fate of the Liberian warlord, Charles Taylor, who was given refuge in Nigeria in 2003 only to be handed over to a court in The Hague in 2006.
So while Lean and Sherman began putting in hours at a friend's shampoo factory—"It's a good time, making shampoo," Gud says, nonchalantly—Gud took the raw material of the Warlord recordings and began editing.
The Pixar Story The Last Kingdom: Season 3: NETFLIX ORIGINAL As Alfred's health weakens — and with it his dream of a united England — Uhtred must take command and confront a new threat, Danish warlord Sigrid.
Putin took up this cause, killing off the Chechen independence movement for good and funding the reconstruction of Grozny, the Chechen capital, in exchange for the loyalty of his chosen Chechen warlord clan, the Kadyrovs.
And that's to say nothing of the invitation extended to the warlord "General" Haftar, whose brief presence in Palermo made a mockery of the peace process, his hosts and his many victims in eastern Libya.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Congolese warlord known as "the Terminator" was sentenced on Thursday to 30 years in prison by an international court in The Hague for war crimes including murder, rape and sexual slavery.
Dostum, an Uzbek strongman and warlord in the early part of the Afghanistan War, fought against the Taliban on horseback alongside a 12-man team of Green Berets from the US Special Forces in 2001.
The actors play American soldiers who join forces with an Afghani warlord (Navid Negahban) to fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, in a story based on the nonfiction book "Horse Soldiers" by Doug Stanton.
I'm watching When We Were Kings, the 1996 documentary about the famous Don King–promoted battle between Ali and George Foreman in Zaire, an African warlord, and America's obsession with old men fighting young men.
"The situation shows that preparations for elections are not there, not in the way that is necessary," said Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf, a former warlord who leads the opposition coalition to which Mr. Daudzai belongs.
KABUL (Reuters) - Former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar returned to Kabul on Thursday after two decades in hiding, calling for peace with Taliban insurgents and criticizing the Western-backed government, which he said was not working.
Kabul fell in November, but Kandahar held out until December 7th, when a convoy of Afghan militiamen, led by the warlord Gul Agha Sherzai, entered the city, accompanied by C.I.A. advisers and U.S. Special Forces.
He was a central figure behind a 2014 bilateral security agreement with the United States and a 2016 reconciliation accord that allowed former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar to return to Kabul and rejoin the political mainstream.
Although the business of the warlord is a lot more interesting than Aimée's bread-and-butter cyber security jobs, finding a babysitter in July and August, when "toute Paris had disappeared," is even more challenging.
The warlord became a party leader, campaigning as a regular politician, delivering speeches at Friday sermons, and calling on Taliban leaders to cash in their chips and play politics ahead of crucial July 2018 parliamentary elections.
In the Netherlands the Party for Freedom, led by Geert Wilders, who has labelled Muhammad a "rapist, warlord and devil", won 13% of the vote in an election in March, making it the country's second-largest.
Of roughly 60 paintings attributed to her, around 40 feature striking female figures demonstrating strength and agency: Judith and Holofernes (Judith beheads an aggressive warlord); Saint Catherine (martyred on the wheel); and the allegories of Inclination.
They all become more pronounced as the games polish the edges of their latest, tallest technological plateau, rendering in fine detail the way Steph Curry chews his mouthpiece, or James Harden contours his Assyrian warlord beard.
As early as the third century, one insurgent leader declared himself the emperor of Britain and northern Gaul; and in 383, another British warlord crossed the Channel and ruled as emperor in Gaul for five years.
Set in the not-so distant dystopian future, "Mad Max: Fury Road" has a fairly straightforward plot — Max and Imperator Furiosa attempt to outrun and escape the warlord Immortan Joe and his caravan of deadly vehicles.
The trailer reintroduces dozens of Marvel characters, some of whom we've watched saved the world since way back in 2008, as they team up against the galactic warlord Thanos, played by a motion-captured Josh Brolin.
Already in 1915, students had protested against Yuan Shikai, the most powerful warlord of the day, both for allowing Japan to extend its reach into northeastern Manchuria and for appointing himself emperor of a new dynasty.
Europe closed one of its most shameful chapters of bloodletting since World War II. After a trial that lasted years, the Bosnian Serb warlord Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life in prison by a U.N. tribunal.
An American tilt now in favor of the warlord General Hifter could push Libya further into becoming a failed state, which would pose a greater threat to the security interests of the United States and Europe.
The Saturday Profile MUSE, Myanmar — She was born to royalty in British colonial Burma, but rejected that life to become a cross-dressing warlord whose C.I.A.-supplied army established opium trade routes across the Golden Triangle.
Rand Castile, who introduced audiences to the splendors of Japanese warlord helmets, Kabuki theater and Tibetan sacred art at Japan Society in Manhattan and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, died last Tuesday in Manhattan.
Ms. Larson said she had spoken to Mr. Overby on May 16, 2014, just days before his disappearance and his attempt to speak with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani group and a powerful warlord.
Kramer did say that just last week the company had a political pressure group request that it discontinue its services for a website that had been linked to a "warlord" on the other side of the world.
At the official launch of Sedgwick Davis' moving memoir To Stop a Warlord, Bell explained how this experience helped her find purpose and recognize the baby steps it takes to ultimately make actual change in the world.
We were also acutely concerned that the USSR's vast collection of nuclear weapons and nuclear material might fall into the hands of a breakaway warlord across that vast country or into the hands of a criminal network.
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan soldiers sexually abused at least 13 girls and women in the Central African Republic while the troops were helping to hunt for warlord Joseph Kony, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
This month features stories about a detective on the hunt for a sword-thief, an evil Darth Vader proxy trying to quit his job, an Alan Moore-inspired rumination on life, and a warlord with a secret.
FOR the first time since it started to function in 2002, the International Criminal Court at The Hague has passed a guilty verdict on a warlord for perpetrating, among other things, rape as an act of war.
Ghani, Saleh and more than a dozen other Afghan politicians, including Hanif Atmar, another former intelligence chief, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former warlord in the anti-Soviet Mujahideen, launched their two-month presidential election campaign on Sunday.
Yakutumba formed a militia bearing his name in 2007 and established himself as a warlord, gold smuggler and arms trafficker in South Kivu's Fizi territory, but looks to be trying to raise an insurrection with nationwide support.
MOSCOW — Caucasian warlord, mixed martial arts enthusiast, scourge of any opposition — Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the autocratic leader of a turbulent mountain republic, wants to convince the rest of Russia that its image of him is all wrong.
His treatment contrasts markedly with that of Kabila's other main rival, former warlord and runner-up presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was allowed to land his plane and given police protection for his return to town.
"Our brothers can help us, and we can help them," said Mary Goll, a former fighter for Charles G. Taylor, the warlord who is serving a 50-year sentence in a British jail for crimes against humanity.
It was also in 1915 that the young intellectual Chen Duxiu founded Xin Qingnian (New Youth), a progressive periodical that over the next few years would publish numerous essays criticizing imperialism, warlord rule and conservative cultural patterns.
One of the key participants there was supposed to be Atta Mohammed Noor, a former warlord who remains at the helm of Balkh Province, a prosperous area in the north, despite Mr. Ghani's attempts to oust him.
A feared Ugandan warlord declared his innocence on Tuesday as he became the first former child soldier to appear before the International Criminal Court, telling judges that his background made him just another of the militia's victims.
"They think he should not be prosecuted," says Cakaj, explaining that in northern Uganda, a region where few communities had been left unscathed by LRA child abductions, there was a degree of sympathy for the former warlord.
The practice is so widespread that at least one of the 2014 Afghan presidential candidates was a onetime C.I.A.-backed warlord, Gul Agha Shirzai, who was widely accused of being a pedophile who keeps bacha bazi boys.
Even worse was Le Duan, the little-known zealot who displaced Ho in the early 1960s as North Vietnam's chief warlord and climbed a "mountain of his people's corpses" to final victory over the South in 1975.
To secure Afghanistan's ethnic-Uzbek vote in 2014, he chose for his running mate Rashid Dostum, a warlord accused of murdering his wife, crushing people with tanks, and asphyxiating thousands of Taliban prisoners in metal shipping containers.
Catholics have a history of being ostracized for their faith in Japan, and 26 Christians who were executed in the late 16th century under orders from the warlord Hideyoshi Toyotomi are commemorated in a monument in Nagasaki.
BANGUI, Central African Republic — Uganda began withdrawing its entire contingent of 2700,24 soldiers from the Central African Republic this week, effectively ending the hunt for the warlord Joseph Kony and his guerrilla group, the Lord's Resistance Army.
Doha has welcomed Saddam Hussein's family, one of Osama bin Laden's sons, the iconoclastic Indian painter M. F. Husain and the Chechen warlord Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who was assassinated in the city by Russian secret agents in 2000.
That Northern Caucasian republic is best known as the rather brutal fief of Ramzan Kadyrov, the warlord who gained added notoriety this month amid accusations that his security goon squads have been systematically arresting and murdering homosexuals.
But it was not immediately clear if the Afghan police would be able to arrest Mr. Keram, a former warlord with many armed followers who previously refused to leave office even though the government had suspended him.
Also starring Michael Shannon, the film will follow the soldiers as they join forces with a warlord in an attempt to drive out the Taliban years before the official start of the Iraq and Afghanistan war in 2003.
Once there, Yasuke became an indentured bodyguard to a powerful Portuguese Jesuit missionary, who in turn gave Yasuke over as a "weapon bearer and novelty" to the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga in a diplomatic effort to appease him.
The comparison to other more well-known conflict resources, including so-called "blood diamonds," which have been mined to finance warlord activity in several African countries, such as Angola and Sierra Leone, is a fair one, says Donovan.
KABUL (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of Afghan former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar rallied in Kabul's main football stadium on Friday, making a stark demonstration of force in the city his fighters helped destroy during civil war two decades ago.
ON THE morning of October 19th thousands of people in Donetsk, the main city occupied by the Russian-backed separatists of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, attended the funeral (pictured above) of a notorious warlord assassinated two days earlier.
Taylor, a warlord who campaigned for election in 1997 on the slogan "He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him", was convicted in 2012 by the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone.
The piece responded to "Kony 2012," the viral video with which a U.S. nonprofit, fronted by the California-based humanitarian Jason Russell, launched a campaign to encourage the international community to defeat the notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony.
Given that censuring the warlord for murdering her parents could have a chilling effect on the larger post-apocalyptic business community, Thiel dismisses the hero's claim immediately and prepares to leave her to the clerks for blood processing.
For much of his life, Mr. Basir has been a commander in the northern militia of Abdul Rashid Dostum, a former warlord who now serves as Afghanistan's vice president while continuing to draw accusations of human rights abuses.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Congolese opposition leader and former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, whose war crimes convictions were quashed in May, will return to the country next week to submit his candidacy for president, a party official said on Monday.
But unrest in northern Afghanistan, where General Dostum has many supporters and allies, is happening anyway: Many Uzbeks have been angered by the government's arrest of a powerful northern warlord and Dostum ally, Nizamuddin Qaisari, and his bodyguards.
Books of The Times As Michael Ovitz reached his breaking point at the all-powerful talent agency C.A.A., which he had run like a warlord since cofounding it in 1975, he did the unthinkable: He insulted a superstar.
Egypt had just signed a peace treaty and dropped out of the conflict, and another young Arab leader — Lebanese Christian warlord Bashir Gemayel — beckoned Israel to join him in crushing the Palestinians and remaking the Middle East together.
The insurgent group's list of grievances against the former warlord leads with the deaths of thousands of Taliban prisoners who surrendered to his forces in late 2001, many of whom suffocated in sealed trucks en route to prison.
The warlord, Bosco Ntaganda, 45, was convicted by a three-judge panel of charges including murder, rape, sexual slavery, intentionally directing attacks against civilians, ordering the displacement of the civilian population, and conscripting children into an armed group.
So the American general has stepped in, taking helicopter rides to the villa of Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayyaf, a firebrand former warlord, on the outskirts of Kabul, or having tea with other figures mobilizing against Mr. Ghani's government.
Related: Notorious Warlord Joseph Kony's Fighters Kidnap Dozens in Central African Republic "This is a positive move in a right direction because this is what will lead to the normalization of our relations with Sudan," he told Reuters.
Unsurprisingly, UEFA took a dim view of a team led by a warlord competing in Europe's premier club competition, which became a grim possibility when Obilić defeated Icelandic champions ÌBV 22005-206 in their first-leg home match.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it had killed a prominent Islamist warlord responsible for a string of deadly attacks on police officers along with nine militants in a special operation in Dagestan in the south of the country.
But a final agreement has been held up with many on the government side suspicious of bringing the prominent Pashtun warlord into the political fold and civil rights activists concerned about longstanding accusations of human rights abuses against him.
"Prepare the Ground" is Yob's best song and one of the best doom metal songs ever: Yob play like stone that can flex like gel, and Scheidt's vocal performance is warlord Ozzy, giving that weary warble a terrifying command.
Liu Wencai, born in 21999, amassed huge wealth in the 260s in the Yangtze River port of Yibin, dominating lucrative businesses including the opium and weapons trades under the wing of his younger brother, Liu Wenhui, a Nationalist warlord.
In 983, Liu Wenhui retreated to the Tibetan region of Kham, after losing a battle to a warlord nephew, and Liu Wencai returned to his hometown, Anren, and sponsored road, water and electricity projects as well as the school.
Gul Agha Sherzai, the warlord who had retaken the province with the help of the C.I.A. and Special Forces, had been the governor; his brother Abdul Raziq was a general in the Afghan Army, in charge of the airport.
Retired as a warlord but respected among the ethnic rebel groups, Ms. Yang was recruited by the Burmese government's chief of intelligence, Khin Nyunt, along with her former colleague Mr. Lo, to help negotiate peace agreements for the government.
Named after Cao Cao, a Chinese warlord during the period of the Three Kingdoms circa 220-280 AD, Geely's platform employs its own chauffeurs and also offers business rides and same-city package delivery services, according to its website.
Related: Notorious Warlord Joseph Kony's Fighters Kidnap Dozens in Central African Republic Sudan and South Sudan will soon be one step closer to improved relations and to boosting economic ties nearly five years after they split into two countries.
In a Season 1 episode written by longtime executive producer Stephen Nathan they found their answer -- a storyline that recalled Booth's time as a sniper and a particular instance where he killed a boy's warlord father during his son's birthday party.
It doesn't show much that viewers of "Avengers: Infinity War" hadn't already guessed (spoilers!): Namely, that the galactic warlord Thanos has succeeded in his plot to eliminate half the population of the universe, including a big swath of the Avengers cast.
Critically acclaimed performances, including Idris Elba's portrayal of an African warlord in "Beasts of No Nation" and Michael B. Jordan's performance in "Creed," failed to earn nominations, leading people to revive a hashtag that surged last year, #OscarsSoWhite, to express frustration.
Ali Mohsin, a veteran warlord and the vice-president, oversees the remains of Yemen's national army from the city of Marib (see map), east of Sana'a, together with his allies from Islah, a clutch of Islamist-leaning northern Sunni tribes.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union has called for international military support for soldiers in the Central African Republic fighting warlord Joseph Kony after the United States and Uganda said they would withdraw troops from the hunt for the insurgents.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When journalist Jineth Bedoya went to Bogota's maximum-security prison 16 years ago to interview an infamous paramilitary warlord, little did she know the visit would mark her life and convert her into a leading rights activist.
You can tell from the characters he's been cast to play: from a hunky Baywatch lifeguard, to a Game of Thrones warlord, to a legit underwater superhero in the upcoming Aquaman film that Momoa is a man of great brawn bravado.
This is more of the same strategy that has given rise to the Islamic State and has essentially turned both Iraq and Afghanistan into tribal, premodern warlord societies that blame the United States for disrupting, destroying and corrupting their countries.
The United States on Tuesday broadened longstanding sanctions against the Lord's Resistance Army, one of central Africa's most violent guerrilla groups, and its founder, Joseph Kony, a warlord and self-described prophet who has eluded the authorities for nearly three decades.
KABUL (Reuters) - Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-i-Islami party is preparing to place thousands of fighters in Afghanistan's security forces, in one of the most complex parts of last year's peace deal between the Western-backed government and the former insurgent warlord.
But enough is enough; it's time to see Daenerys as the warlord she was always fated to become and for large-scale action scenes to dominate the skullduggery, pining, and realpolitik that have dominated the desert scenes for-fucking-ever.
He has been a C.I.A.-favored fighter of the Soviets, a warlord who mauled Kabul, a prime minister, an admirer of Al Qaeda, an ally and enemy of the Taliban, and an unabashed proponent of suicide bombings against American forces.
His best work was more memorable than any of the stories that it illustrated, including Arthur J. Burks's "Monsters of Moyen," in which an Eastern warlord deploys a fleet of gigantic submarines and "aero-subs" in an attack against America.
"We've been hunting Kony for years, is it worth the effort?" poses another series of questions related to Joseph Kony, the warlord head of Uganda's violent guerrilla group the Lord's Resistance Army, who has eluded the authorities for three decades.
KABUL (Reuters) - A former warlord accused of historic war crimes entered Afghanistan's presidential race on Saturday in a new challenge to President Ashraf Ghani who allowed him to return from exile two decades he was forced out by the Taliban.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The last time Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan warlord, was in Kabul more than 20 years ago, he was the prime minister and a participant in a factional war that destroyed the capital and claimed tens of thousands of lives.
According to "The Redemption of an African Warlord," which often reads like a fable, he subsisted on chalk, flew through the air, and was anointed high priest of a secret society—a post that required him to perform monthly human sacrifices.
Bemba, a former vice president and warlord whose war crimes convictions at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague were quashed on appeal in May, is expected to pose a stiff challenge to President Joseph Kabila or his preferred successor.
The various Imperial adversaries that Rogue Squadron went up against — like Ysanne Isard, Kirtan Loor, or Warlord Zsinj — essentially had their motivations tied up in the quest to restore the Empire to something resembling its former glory, or to amass power for themselves.
For several years, as it ramped up its military, the UAE dabbled in aggressive operations, supporting Sunni rebels in Syria to fight against al-Assad, for example, and sending arms to the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar as he fought the government of Tripoli.
You control mythological creatures and legendary warriors — including the gladiator Spartacus, the sorceress Morgan Le Fay, and the warlord Vlad the Impaler — who fight for control of a ball and try to move it into a goal amid hand-to-hand combat.
And Zuckerberg, the category's still youthful warlord, looks less "harshly pacifying Augustus" than modern day Ozymandias, forever banging on about his unifying mission while being drowned out by the sound and fury coming from the platform he built to programmatically profit from conflict.
I don't know much about Game of Thrones, but I do know quite a bit about metal, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that Khal Drogo (who is apparently some kind of undead warlord?), has really solid taste in the heavy stuff.
And one semi-major character is an African warlord, who seems to exist in a far more interesting movie about the world community largely abandoning the people of the African continent to deal with the remnants of the alien horde on their own.
Khalifa Haftar, the charismatic general-turned-warlord who became a key power broker after the fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, is back in his stronghold in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi following a health scare that sparked rumors he was dead.
A longtime resident of the Bronx River Houses and former warlord of the gang the Black Spades, Bambaataa, among others, identified the four pillars of the nascent subculture—b-boying, MCing, DJing, and graffiti writing—later adding to it a fifth: knowledge.
Here are some details about Abdullah and his political career: - After working as a medical doctor in his twenties, Abdullah came into politics - and war - with the anti-Taliban resistance hero and warlord Ahmad Shah Massoud, assassinated two days before the Sept.
Also on the ballot this time around is Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former warlord whose fighters are accused of killing thousands in Kabul during the 1990s civil war Some 9.6 million voters have registered, in a country with a population of about 32 million.
But this year is the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Mogadishu, the infamous clash in which 18 Americans and more than 1,000 Somalis were killed when US Special Forces attempted to arrest Somalia's most powerful warlord at the time, Mohammed Farrah Aidid.
The modish heroine of MURDER IN SAINT-GERMAIN (Soho Crime, $27.95) and other delicious Parisian mysteries by Cara Black must juggle motherhood with finding a nasty blackmailer, overseeing computer security at the École des Beaux-Arts and hunting down a Serbian warlord.
Of course, the safety pin movement is a little different from these other two movements; declaring your support for curbing racism and xenophobia isn't quite the same as trying to eliminate a warlord or ensure a pipeline isn't built in North Dakota.
But when 21978 Army Rangers were slain by warlord forces in 21967, and America saw searing images of a dead helicopter pilot dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, the United States withdrew its forces and retreated from risky United Nations missions, humanitarian or military.
According to a recent FADER story, shortly after recording a rough version of Warlord in the spring of 2015, Lean—who after Gud left him in Miami, had descended even further into drug abuse—suffered a psychotic break, and wound up in a mental hospital.
The warlord (except he isn't, really) will have many more occasions to groan, as Mom spews oft-told accounts of her time as a professional wrestler, a pillaging pirate and the owner of a dog named Mutnik, who was abducted and sent into space.
This spring (until May 5th) visitors can inspect one of the oldest—and most intact—textiles to have survived from pre-classical Greece: a piece of linen which once served as a ceremonial garment for a wealthy local warlord, and eventually wrapped his cremated remains.
After the Taliban were beaten back, according to a statement issued by the party's Executive Council, fighting broke out between the Jamiat militiamen and militiamen from the Junbish party, an Uzbek group led by Afghanistan's first vice president, the ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum.
The warlord, Bosco Ntaganda, 46, was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in July of 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in atrocities in a bloody ethnic conflict in the mineral-rich Ituri region of Congo in 2002-03.
Such grace and respect for constitutional order is unlikely to be the case with 2016's most significant African poll, the presidential election in the DRC, whose current ruler, Joseph Kabila, has been in power since he extralegally inherited power from his assassinated warlord father.
" This is a warlord, I guess: Former Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg, who regularly speaks to Bannon, told BuzzFeed: "Matt Drudge worked to remove Steve Bannon, that is the reality... It's not lost on Steve or [the] Breitbart staff that Drudge was out for Steve.
Here's what you need to know: • Europe closed what may be its most shameful chapter of bloodletting since World War II. After a trial that lasted years, the Bosnian Serb warlord Ratko Mladic, 217, was sentenced to life in prison by a U.N. tribunal.
In Susanne Bier's Oscar-winning best foreign-language film, a Swedish doctor, Anton (Mikael Persbrandt), divides his time between his semi-estranged wife (Trine Dyrholm) and two sons in Denmark and a refugee camp in Africa, where his patients are victims of a warlord.
But as hundreds of supporters waited late into the night at an airport in northern Afghanistan, the small private plane carrying Mr. Dostum, an ex-warlord, was denied permission to land on orders from the central government, according to several Afghan and Western officials.

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