1.   Another security concern is increased fighting among tribal warlords who hold great sway in parts of highly armed Afghanistan.

2.   In Afghanistan, the recurring divisions fueled over the years by political infighting and the ambitions of tribal warlords have doomed most attempts at national unity.

3.   Pondering the question of the Taliban collapse, John Newhouse, a scholar at the Brookings Institution, recalled an old British saying about Afghanistan tribal warlords.

4.   The elder Bush felt his job was done, but without foreign help, Afghanistan fell apart and lawlessness prevailed as tribal warlords battled among themselves for domination.

5.   This is the raiding season, when pro-government militias, tribal warlords and free-lance cattle rustlers traditionally sweep across southern Sudan.

6.   An Alabama man who reported being kidnapped by a tribal warlord in Afghanistan has been released, a family friend announced Friday.

7.   An Alabama man who reported being kidnapped by a tribal warlord in Afghanistan has been released, a family friend said Friday.

8.   Bowers called his wife last week and told her his private humanitarian mission to Afghanistan had been diverted and he had been kidnapped by a tribal warlord.

9.   But reports continue to surface of tribal warlords hijacking shipments of food, clothing and other aid.

10.   Calm returned Friday in the town of Gardez after a two-day pitched battle by rival tribal warlords.