21.   Its role is to prevent the return of the Taliban and al-Qaida and to keep Afghan factions from settling their disputes with guns.

22.   Officially, NATO said the transmitter was secured to prevent opposing Serb factions from battling for its control.

23.   Survivors, all members of the pro-rebel Las Abejas peasant organization, said they recognized some of the attackers as members of PRI factions from nearby villages.

24.   The rebels are believed to be factions from the losing side.

25.   Their deaths raised concerns they were targeted as ethnic opponents to a militant faction from the Mohajir Qaumi Movement.

26.   Troops must be kept in place to simply prevent one faction from killing the other, Pataki said.

27.   Warring factions from the Republic of Congo called Monday for a cease-fire and the deployment of peacekeeping soldiers in the country to enforce it.

28.   International law strictly forbids warring factions from depriving civilians of basic amenities and says rescue attempts on behalf of civilians should not be impeded.

29.   - The New Party is a smaller break-away faction from the KMT.

30.   A new breakaway faction from the far-right Tzomt party, called Yiud, brought two MPs into the coalition in January.