In May 2000 Fiji saw its second coup, led by a civilian, George Speight, but backed by a faction from an elite army squadron.
After the collapse of the Baath Party's first brief reign in 1963, the party splintered and Aziz, who did propaganda work for the party, joined a faction from Tikrit, a city in north-central Iraq.
The corresponding FST value of 0.02379 indicates a low degree of genetic differentiation, among the studied groups, which might probably be attributed to the recent formation of the different factions from a common ancestral group.
On August 10, tear gas-wielding police tried unsuccessfully to prevent the faction from holding a congress.
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The army's ceasefire declaration comes after some factions from an alliance of militias controlling the capital, Tripoli, announced a truce on Friday.
"It's like a war is going off on the streets," says one 17-year-old gang member, describing an ongoing feud between two factions from an estate dubbed "Dodge City" in Netherton and nearby Fernhill.
It included a large faction from the Muslim Brotherhood, a party that had been in exile since it was outlawed in Syria in the 1980s.
The military and defense applications are fairly obvious: imagine a system that took in all news and social media posts and informed its administrators that it seemed likely there would be a run on banks, or a coup, or a new faction emerging from a declining one.
United Nations peacekeepers conducted a fresh offensive today aimed at bringing to heel a dissident faction from the rag-tag pro-government coalition, a United Nations spokeswoman said.
