1.   Rival warlords are also holding up mercy missions with feuds over contracts to take food to drought-ravaged towns and villages.

2.   A peace pact forged last year among six rival warlords had been unraveling in the countryside, and in the early hours of Saturday the fighting swept over Monrovia.

3.   After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, rival warlords fought for power, and the country descended into chaos.

4.   But inside Afghanistan, stability remains elusive as rival warlords jostle for power and ancient tribal enmities flare.

5.   But the Pentagon has also been accused of relying on faulty intelligence, sometimes provided by rival warlords, to attack targets, a charge military officials deny.

6.   Elsewhere, rival warlords clash, bandits prey and opportunistic neighbors like Iran maneuver for influence.

7.   Five rival warlords are scheming to become shogun, or supreme military dictator.

8.   He rounded up the three rival warlords who he believed took part in the plot to kill his oldest brother and had them hanged in a nearby village square.

9.   In effect, a power vacuum exists in Afghanistan into which rival warlords have now stepped.

10.   In January, U.S. fighter bombers maintained a constant vigil overhead when fighting broke out between rival warlords near Gardez in the southeast.