11.   Dostum and Mohammed, both powerful warlords, battled over who would rule the province surrounding Mazar-e-Sharif.

12.   Earlier this month, authorities arrested Dzhaba Ioseliani, a powerful Georgian warlord and former Shevardnadze ally.

13.   Ethiopian forces have recently penetrated deep into southern Somalia in an effort to combat Ethiopian rebels who have allied themselves with powerful Somali warlord Hussein Aidid.

14.   Hirsi Aweyeh, who lived in a south Mogadishu neighborhood controlled by powerful warlord Hussein Aidid, was alone in the vehicle.

15.   Holl said he was preparing to travel to the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif to meet the powerful Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum.

16.   Meanwhile in Chechnya, unidentified attackers on Tuesday shot and killed Ruslan Daayev, a powerful warlord.

17.   Meanwhile, a U.N. envoy met with a powerful warlord in northern Afghanistan, hoping to prevent fighting in that part of the country.

18.   Many of the battles are between militias controlled by several powerful northern warlords.

19.   Massood and Rashid Dostum, a powerful northern warlord, lead an alliance that controls the northern third of the country.

20.   Most of northern Afghanistan is run by a powerful Uzbek warlord, Rashid Dostum.