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  • To attempt to replicate elements of that approach, the U.S. military and NATO started mapping the approximately four hundred tribes and their many sub-tribes across Afghanistan.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • To attempt to replicate elements of that approach, the U.S. military and NATO started mapping the approximately four hundred tribes and their many sub-tribes across Afghanistan.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • To attempt to replicate elements of that approach, the U.S. military and NATO started mapping the approximately four hundred tribes and their many sub-tribes across Afghanistan.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • To attempt to replicate elements of that approach, the U.S. military and NATO started mapping the approximately four hundred tribes and their many sub-tribes across Afghanistan.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Various youth "sub-tribes" intermittently bubble to the surface of contemporary urban life.

    Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Society: Racing Forward, Not Cracking Up Tom Doctoroff 2010

  • Various youth "sub-tribes" intermittently bubble to the surface of contemporary urban life.

    Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Society: Racing Forward, Not Cracking Up Tom Doctoroff 2010

  • Of the right to share the Holy Land between two peoples, for the sake of, and despite, the two peoples 'many quarrelsome sub-tribes, camps and splinters.

    Bradley Burston: I Refuse to be your Enemy: Human Rights in the Holy Land 2009

  • The foundation reveals that very few girls from the Ajjhari and Manjhi sub-tribes of Gujjars were sent to school, and there is a very high dropout percentage due to compelling economic or domestic reasons and early marriages.

    5 Lakh tribal Children live in deprivation in J&K 2009

  • Between 1849 and 1947, Britain sent almost annual expeditions against the Pashtun tribes and sub-tribes living in what was then called the North-West Frontier Territories -- the area along either side of the artificial border between Afghanistan and Pakistan called the Durand Line.

    Chalmers Johnson: Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire 2009

  • Pashtun tribes and sub-tribes living in what was then called the North-West

    Afghanistan Is Another Afghanistan 2009

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