Working together with the Russians in Syria and Iraq is the only way forward to defeating Daesh there, and that may mean keeping Assad in power until the conflict is over, and then negotiating with him, the Russians, and factions in Syria to find an acceptable replacement who can stabilise that country (a top priority for Israel).
Studies of parties and factions in late medieval Italy serve as a constant base of comparison throughout the paper.
After a Palestinian cabinet meeting Saturday afternoon, the security chief, Muhammad Dahlan, said he expected a response on the cease-fire proposal from Hamas and other factions in a day or two.
Across the border in Syria, the same group was facing a concerted push-back from an alliance of Islamist and other rebel factions in a series of apparently co-ordinated strikes – which some activists claimed on Saturday marked the start of a "second revolution", this time against al-Qaida.
Stephen Vladeck, an American University law professor, said the middle ground sought by the administration has put both the civil libertarian and national security conservative factions in a bind.
Saudi Arabia has emerged as the country that is best suited to give voice and represent the various political factions in a reconciliatory manner – especially when looking at how to tackle Palestinian-to-Palestinian politics.
They are, in fact, a very big, very obvious divider (at least for now, while still elite, expensive and non-ubiquitous) between two contentious factions in a city where people have been fighting over much more serious issues, including the lack of affordable housing, San Francisco's gentrification, forced evictions and the like.
The BNP has allied in the past with Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist political party with some hardline factions, in a constant and intense struggle for power among the three parties.
Images inspired by Goya etchings depict embittered factions in a civil war.
An ironic picture emerges of the gentle Tasaday living a forest idyll amid the violent civil war raging all around them in Mindanao; of the voracious people and factions with a stake in their story; of rumours that Manda was "really" using the Tasaday as a cover for a marijuana plantation or as a way of soliciting foreign funds for Panamin.
