Tribesmen say dozens of people were killed in sporadic clashes that lasted until March.
The area is mostly populated by Pashtun tribesmen who have very conservative views toward women.
Several officials blamed tribesmen, who they said were demanding the release of jailed relatives.
But isle-buyers like solitude: Mel Gibson, an actor, gave up his after a row with tribesmen.
Security forces in Yemen cordoned off an area where tribesmen are holding a British family hostage.
In many restive regions of Syria, tribesmen are deployed by the Syrian military as paramilitary forces called Shabiha.
Even the idea of selling milk to someone you didn't know seemed strange to the very traditional tribesmen.
The tribesmen attacked the enemy with small, highly mobile units, forcing it to defend itself along a huge front.
Pokomos are largely farmers while the semi-nomadic Orma tribesmen mostly tend to livestock.
Saridal was established 45 years ago by semi-nomadic tribesmen on the edge of Karacadag, an extinct volcano east of Diyarbakir.
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They have achieved the improbable feat of disarming tribesmen in a society where guns are considered indispensable emblems of manhood.
His campaign with the camel-mounted Bedouin tribesmen against the Turks was a masterful exposition of the principles of guerrilla warfare.
Only one kidnap victim has ever been so much as injured, and that during a shoot-out between police and tribesmen.
Home to rich rainforests and a population of just 2 million, it was best known for photographs of stone age tribesmen.
Announcements were made from loudspeakers in local mosques warning that tribesmen found with such phones would be fined and the device confiscated.
The conflict began five years ago when ethnic African tribesmen took up arms, complaining of decades of neglect and discrimination by the Sudanese government.
The salient difference was that his tribesmen stayed within their limits, simply putting the materials they had together in new ways, like handymen or bricoleurs.
The Darfur conflict began five years ago, when ethnic African tribesmen took up arms, complaining of decades of neglect and discrimination by the Sudanese government.
More than 100 people were reported killed in Pakistan's tribal area of South Waziristan in days of fighting between local ethnic-Pushtun tribesmen and foreign militants.
The Tuareg are nomadic tribesmen in the Sahara and Sahel regions.
Some 200, 000 Mehsud tribesmen are expected eventually to flee the fighting.
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Tribesmen demanding the release of prisoners kidnapped a female Swiss teacher in Yemen, two Yemeni Interior Ministry officials told CNN on Friday.
Reuters reported that up to 60 tribesmen were blocking the Karakoram Highway in the small mountain town of Besham, 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Islamabad.
All roads leading to the predominantly Sunni town of Qara Tappah, about 120km (75 miles) north-east of Baghdad, were blocked by armed tribesmen, AP news agency reported.
The coins are thought to have been hidden in the island by tribesmen from Gaul trying to keep it from Caesar and his army around 50 BC.
He took them, muddy as they were, into hotels with him, and clung fiercely on to them whenever tribesmen robbed him of the rest of his things.
He was a victim not of treacherous tribesmen but of an elephant he was riding, which reared and brained him on a stone archway he was passing through.
The shells are etched with simple geometric forms that are still used by Kalahari tribesmen to mark ownership of the shells, which they employ as water vessels.
Members of the Sudanese Armed Forces removed the "armed tribesmen" from Kutum town last Saturday, but the militiamen returned a day later to fight again, the OCHA said.
There is already rivalry between Islamists and secular-minded people, between tribesmen and urbanites, between east and west, between Tripoli and Benghazi, the original rebel headquarters in the east.
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