But the minutes still provided much information on how the Serb leaders "ran their proxy army" in Bosnia, one tribunal official said.

The end of the cold war left the superpowers' proxy armies without patrons, and the spread of democracy made nations less bellicose.

She was violently uprooted from her home near Mogadishu during a shoot-out between proxy armies.

They also used the Ethiopians as a proxy army against the Sudanese Mahdists.

Indeed, it's because of China's support that Sudan felt it could get away this month with sending a proxy army to invade neighboring Chad.

But prosecutors said he had instigated many crimes in Bosnia and Croatia through proxy armies which he supplied and financed.

African states have made great efforts to respect interstate borders as inviolate, yet interstate conflicts have played out by support for proxy armies or rebel movements.

Translate "mercenaries" into contract workers and proxy armies (remember the bloodthirsty, misogynist Northern Alliance?)

The American dependence on such proxy armies is clearest in Mosul, where Kurds make up nearly a quarter of the population.