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"We have targeted them because they are enemies of Sunnis and conspire against us," Mohammed Afridi, a spokesman for the faction, was reported as saying in a telephone interview.
Three people were reported killed in or near the town of Myawaddy, where a Karen rebel faction was reported to be clashing with government troops.
Clashes between and among rival factions are reported in various locations, including Sanaa and the oil-rich desert governorate of Marib.
In Iran, the leader of a smaller faction, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, was reported to have issued veiled death threats against the Palestinian delegates, leading to complaints today from a P.L.O.
Despite a suspension of attacks declared by the three main Palestinian factions, scattered violence was reported around the West Bank and Gaza.
In early November it was reported that this faction was being headed by the majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, Michael Jordan.
But in a meeting with leaders of parliamentary factions before the speech, Mr. Putin was reported to have said that he would not commit Russian troops to operations inside Afghanistan because the Russian Constitution proscribed such operations and the United Nations had yet to authorize them.
Late last year, Zawahiri was reported to have named Suri to mediate a dispute between rival Al Qaeda factions in Syria.
Increased cooperation among insurgent factions also is being reported inside Pakistan, where many of the extremist organizations are based or where their leaders have found a haven.
The Ḥūthīs' occupation of the capital and their forays into territory far from their northern stronghold brought them into conflict with other Yemeni factions; clashes with AQAP were reported in October.
Both the two main remaining factions are based in Pakistan: one is reported to be based in the southern port city of Karachi and under the supervision of Pakistani security services there, and the other is increasingly close to al-Qaida, officials in Delhi believe.
