Plotlines have been provocative; they have included exposing drug-traffickers, taking on tribal warlords, and hunting down would-be child suicide bombers.

Other theories suggest that the game was derived from Chinese tribal warlords and generals, who used pieces of stone to map out attacking positions.

Then as now, CNN's coverage is "hosted by a woman with jagged black bangs" and features high-tech weaponry, venal politicians, bloodthirsty tribal warlords.

Being a tribal warlord was just like having a command, but with less paperwork.

The show he has in mind will depict the lighter side of being a tribal warlord.

And for Mr. Buthelezi, who longs to be viewed as something more than a tribal warlord, the deal opens the way to assuming a national role.

He will be Somalia's first head of state since 1991, when tribal warlords overthrew the ruling military dictatorship.

Journalist Dexter Filkins talks about his experience meeting a tribal warlord on the Pakistani-Afghan border.

She makes the case very clearly that foreign aid is going to the tribal warlords and not the people who desperately need assistance.

In August, a government minister is shot dead on the orders of a tribal warlord.