41.   Amanudin then points in the opposite direction to a place from where a rival warlord did the same.

42.   Because many regions are controlled by rival warlords, there is a danger some troops will be more loyal to their former bosses than to the central government.

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

44.   Each time rival warlords unleashed new assaults back home, he dug up more mud to repair his temporary home.

45.   Fierce competition among rival warlords raises the prospect of renewed civil war, although probably not in the near term, said a classified CIA analysis.

46.   Fierce competition among rival Afghan warlords raises the prospect of renewed civil war, although probably not in the near term, a CIA analysis says.

47.   Fighting raged Wednesday between rival warlords in northern Afghanistan, both of them officials of the interim government.

48.   Fierce competition among rival warlords raises the prospect of renewed civil war, although probably not in the near term, according to a classified CIA analysis.

49.   Growing signs of instability in Afghanistan, where rival warlords are battling for power, threaten to propel the U.S. military into a bigger role in fending off chaos.

50.   His father was critically wounded in a battle with a rival warlord.