warlord
யுத்தப் பிரபு
definition
noun
The US is buying off regional warlords and militia commanders for a variety of reasons.
a military commander, especially an aggressive regional commander with individual autonomy.
translation of 'warlord'
நாட்டின் ஒரு பகுதியைக் கைப்பற்றி இருக்கும் போர்த் தலைவன்
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Witnesses have told an Old Bailey jury they were imprisoned in a blood-stained room and beaten under the command of an Afghan 'warlord' .
The 'warlord' was in Central Asia, in the region along the old border of Afghanistan and China.
An Anglo-Saxon ruler of this period was above all else a 'warlord' , a dryhten, as the Old-English sources put it.
Opium is grown freely in the countryside and gathered by farmers who sell it to factories employed by, or paying off, the local 'warlord' .
President Charles Taylor is a former 'warlord' who seized power and then was elected to it.
Mr Taylor emerged the strongest 'warlord' from that conflict and won presidential elections the following year.
The real struggle now is to bring the 'warlords' together to manage the peace.
Anything that threatened the interests of the regional 'warlords' would be vetoed.
Just handing over the country to the 'warlords' of the Northern Alliance once the war against the Taliban is won would be a kind of betrayal.
These networks soon recruited tribal 'warlords' and mobilised tribal extended families.
Renegade 'warlords' and militants now control much of the main island of Guadalcanal.
Last week Karzai threatened to resign unless regional 'warlords' paid more revenue into central government coffers.
The shipowners often draw up contracts with local officials, clan elders or regional 'warlords' .
Somaliland, in the north, and Puntland, in the north east, are in the hands of autonomous 'warlords' .
The 'warlords' already control several small but important enclaves across Afghanistan.
Somalia has been destroyed as a country, it has been torn into patches which are run by rebel armies of tribal 'warlords' .
The analogy was that this was a nation ruled by twelve regional 'warlords' .
The US is buying off regional 'warlords' and militia commanders for a variety of reasons.
Some are the personal armies of aspiring 'warlords' , out to conquer as much territory as they can and hold it by force.
The regional and local 'warlords' who were the key allies of the US against the Taliban are not advocates of women's rights.
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