Many of her childhood friends had been tattooed, marks of membership into tribal clans or as devices to enhance personal beauty.

Much of our folklore is distorted clan, tribal, or national record.

In Yemen, tribal clans have kidnapped hundreds of foreigners, including the Polish ambassador, over the last decade.

Doc Dobrescu's determined that the tribal clans have an average life span two-thirds as long as the townsmen.

But, they continued to refer to themselves by their tribal, clan, or other internal affiliations.

The hunt for Saddam Hussein ended late Saturday with information from a member of his tribal clan.

The Gorshani tribe has 11 tribal clans which further divide in 81 sub clans.

Gotra is the Sanskrit term for a much older system of tribal clans.

From the Polish territories called Lingonia seven or eight tribal clans arrived under Totilo.

Truce between Ethiopian military forces and tribal clans in Mogadishu.