11.   Lebed also warned of the dangers of a civil war breaking out among rival Chechen factions as Russian troops pull out.

12.   That plan called for the creation of an interim council grouping the various factions as a first step, even before talks on an transitional administration.

13.   The unpopular war is cited by many leading reformist factions as the chief obstacle to their supporting the president.

14.   Cambodian government officials invoke the Khmer Rouge as a threat to national security and use the Marxist faction as occasional justification for making arrests and restricting freedom of expression.

15.   Warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid called on his supporters Wednesday to crush opposing factions as fighting with heavy weapons continued in the disputed south Mogadishu neighbourhood of Bermuda.

16.   Liberian fighters executed a member of a rival faction as clashes resumed in Monrovia on Wednesday in defiance of a ceasefire.

17.   Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid called on his supporters Wednesday to crush opposing factions as fighting with heavy weapons continued in the disputed south Mogadishu neighbourhood of Bermuda.

18.   The force has not been able to disarm the warring factions as planned under a peace agreement signed last year, because of ongoing conflict.