Tribesmen say dozens of people were killed in sporadic clashes that lasted until March.
Allen spent months coaxing Sunni tribesmen to switch sides in Anbar, and back the American effort.
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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.
Military officials said 40 militants, at least 14 soldiers and six pro-government tribesmen were killed.
But isle-buyers like solitude: Mel Gibson, an actor, gave up his after a row with tribesmen.
Disgruntled tribesmen seize a foreign oil-worker, diplomat or tourist and present a series of demands.
Security forces in Yemen cordoned off an area where tribesmen are holding a British family hostage.
Imprisoned tribesmen are being held in the Hodeida Central Prison for disturbing travelers and creating roadblocks.
Both times before, the saboteurs were Bedouin tribesmen who feel that the Egyptian government discriminates against them.
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PRTs are also charged with blurring the distinction between civilian and military in the eyes of Afghan tribesmen.
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.
Tribesmen may then resort to kidnapping to extort money from the government, local oil companies or even foreign countries.
Just after partition, late in 1947, fierce Pushtun tribesmen poured into Kashmir to seize territory for Pakistan from India.
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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The Hindu maharaja of Kashmir wanted independence, but hurriedly acceded to India in 1948 after Pakistani tribesmen invaded his realm.
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.
But with fellow tribesmen in Iraq suffering under a US-led military campaign, the lack of clear opposition from the government upsets many.
In recent weeks, the Pakistani Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam have been fighting against another militant group, Ansar-e-Islam, which is allied with pro-government tribesmen.
Announcements were made from loudspeakers in local mosques warning that tribesmen found with such phones would be fined and the device confiscated.
On Thursday, tribesmen demanding the release of prisoners kidnapped a female Swiss teacher in Hodeida on the Red Sea coast, officials said.
The Sunni tribesmen believed that the U.S. would guard their back, and let neither al-Qaida nor Iranian proxies run roughshod over them.
Kashmir's then ruler, a Hindu, wanted independence but hurriedly acceded to India in return for military aid against an invasion of Pakistani tribesmen.
Until December 1998, the frequent kidnappings of tourists all ended with them being released unharmed after tribesmen extracted a ransom from the government.
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