A power struggle ensued between various armed factions, including the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), led by Jonas Savimbi, and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), a pro-communist group supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Afghanistan Rocket attacks for which the Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility disrupted a major peace Jirga aimed at finding means for reconciliation between Afghanistan's rivaling factions (including the Afghan Taliban!).
Many headed to other areas in eastern Ghouta covered by a cease-fire brokered last month between Russia and some of the rebel factions, including the dominant Army of Islam group.
Since 1962, civil war between the government of Myanmar (also known as Burma) and independent ethnic factions including the Karen National Union (KNU) has caused egregious human rights abuses and unmet public health needs for ethnic minority population [ 28- 30].
State Attorney Eduardo Montoya Liebano said one police officer and one civilian had been hurt in El Bosque, the site of longstanding tensions between clashing factions, including supporters of the Zapatista guerrillas.
If she succeeds, James will have to contend with a party riven by infighting between various factions, including Farage loyalists, a circle around the former Conservative cabinet minister Neil Hamilton, and others close to Douglas Carswell, the party's only MP.
But that came to an abrupt end with the arrest of about 200 people, who were held for a few days.Attempts to mediate between MDC factions, including by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, have so far failed.
Somalia is in the grip of a long-running civil war between government forces and Islamist factions including al-Shabaab, while the Taliban, Isis and other jihadists are fighting Afghan forces in a continuing insurgency following the withdrawal of British and US troops.
Rivalries among the various factions, including a bitter historical opposition between Mr. Maliki and Mr. Sadr, remain barely below the surface.
He then invited all factions, including Hamas, to discuss the way ahead.
