1.   So agriculture is getting back to normal, but villagers are still in danger of being looted by armed factions in this war.

2.   Arafat could never deliver every armed faction once popular opinion in the occupied territories began to turn against Oslo.

3.   Armed Christian factions were responsible, in part, for starting and sustaining the war.

4.   Arafat publicly ordered the armed factions to stop firing mortars at Jewish settlements.

5.   Both Uganda and Rwanda have troops in the Congo supporting various armed factions trying to oust Kabila.

6.   Afghanistan faces a similar challenge in dealing with its armed factions.

7.   Brahimi said no group should be excluded from an Afghan transitional authority, especially since the current armed factions did not represent the vast majority of Afghan people.

8.   But it is much harder to find accurate information about the precise number and character of the local armed factions which the allies may encounter.

9.   Hamid Karzai, with a base of support in the south, is thought to be leading an armed faction against Taliban remnants.

10.   In Afghanistan, two decades of war have made the country a haven for drug runners linked to various armed factions.