Two rebel groups, Hizbul Islam and the Shabab, and a government-allied militia, Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama, have been involved in clashes for control of three towns.
The factories had sent vehicles of steel throughout the world, and now these vehicles, in armored form, were clashing for control of the petroleum that powered the whole operation.
That provoked fresh allegations of rigging since Uneximbank's boss, Vladimir Potanin, is the banker closest of all to Mr Chubais.Mr Berezovsky and Mr Potanin are likely to clash again for control of Rosneft, Russia's last big state-owned oil firm, due to be sold off early next year.
Fierce fighting erupted today on the outskirts of Donetsk as the Ukrainian military clashed with rebels for control of the city's airport.
French troops have arrived in Mali amid a rapid escalation of international efforts to intervene in the country, where Islamist groups are continuing to clash with the army for control of the desert north.
Ice still comes into play in indoor broomball — in the form of ice bags after clashes between players fighting for control of the ball result in hands being hit.
Pro-government forces have been engaged in intense clashes with Islamic State militants for control of Ramadi, the Anbar provincial capital, situated 70 miles west of Baghdad.
But dingy streets and plazas behind Omonia Square have become a haven for the drug and sex trades and the scene of frequent armed clashes between migrant groups wrestling for control of this trade.
"Dune," published in 1965, remains a perfect, self-contained work of science fiction: an enormous 500-page novel of feudalistic families clashing in a futuristic world for control of its precious few natural resources, and an exiled boy-king learning the traditions of a foreign land in order to fight his way back onto his throne.
Earlier, rebels and government forces reportedly clashed near Aleppo as they fought for control of a military airbase.
