They attacked a stronghold of a clan aligned with the rival Fatah faction, and gunmen there returned fire.
Late last year an allied Taliban faction tried to seize large tracts of the Swat valley in the North-West Frontier Province.
Ethiopia had agreed to withdraw its forces from urban centers as part of a peace agreement with a moderate faction of the insurgency, but the rebel advance may change those plans.
For Aristotle the point and purpose of political science is to mediate the causes of faction to help causes of faction that lead to revolution and civil war.
But they have attracted broader interest among Gazans opposed to Hamas, not least Mr Abbas's Fatah faction, which once ruled the strip but has been hamstrung by Hamas.
Fatah and Hamas may even stick with Salam Fayyad, a former IMF man who is popular with Western donors, belongs to neither main faction, and currently runs the Palestinian Authority.
HOMELESS, faction-ridden and riding a losing streak, Pakistani cricket was already having a bad year.
A smaller opposition (MDC) faction led by Arthur Mutambara, is to receive three ministries and Mutambara is to assume one of two newly created positions of deputy prime minister.
As social intellectuals, we have to cooperate with one faction within the party to defeat the other faction.
Its chief executive, Jesús Reyes Heroles, a former PRI minister, has been replaced by Juan José Suárez Coppel, who has a private-sector background but also has ties to a different PRI faction.
Some will deplore this new sign that America’s dysfunctional polity is being crushed in the vice of faction.
But the royal faction did not give up without a fight.
Other reports said the soldier and three Afghan soldiers had been captured by the Taliban's Haqqani faction, which is believed to control large areas of eastern Afghanistan.
Many of these anxieties are expressed by the “realist faction”.
Everything that one faction considers bad, another faction transvalues and considers good.
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