In Gaza City on Thursday, Hamas and allied factions organised a rally in support of the Palestinian delegation in Cairo.
The Ivoirian Popular Movement of the Far West, one of two allied factions in the area, said it had been "betrayed" by France, which this week persuaded the factions to join talks on Wednesday in Paris.
Although the militia intends to join the battle against Islamic State, some of the allied factions view it as an enemy.
King was himself reliant on the UFA: his minority government was survived thank to the support of Progressives and allied factions, including the 11 UFA MPs.
In the 1921 federal election, 65 of the Canadian House of Commons' 235 seats were won by Progressives and allied factions, including the UFA, which won both seats it contested.
On a recent tour organized by the Badr Organization near Tikrit, a convoy of visiting journalists observed twitchy militiamen from ostensibly allied factions nearly get into a firefight when their cars were not allowed to pass.
The international coalition that's supporting the ground offensive says the operation is proceeding according to plan, but on the ground the different allied factions — which will eventually be expected to coordinate a final assault on the IS stronghold of Mosul — display a deep mutual distrust.
It is equally plausible the operation is limited in nature and nothing more than a routine military "housekeeping" designed to shore up allied factions battling rivals for control of key towns like Beledweyn.
Late last year an allied Taliban faction tried to seize large tracts of the Swat valley in the North-West Frontier Province.
American officials are increasingly frustrated that while the Pakistanis have conducted offensives against the Pakistani Taliban and Al Qaeda, they have not so far pursued the Afghan Taliban and an allied militant faction on their border, the Haqqani network, whose fighters pose a threat to American forces.
