21.   Arafat said he planned to convene a meeting of all Palestinian groups - including the militant Islamic factions of Hamas and Islamic Jihad - to discuss what to do.

22.   Bhutto and Rafsanjani were expected to discuss Afghanistan, where Iran and Pakistan pursue their own interests in a civil war between rival militant Muslim factions.

23.   But refugees have continued to trickle in since militant Muslim factions overthrew the Communist government in Kabul three years ago and began fighting among themselves.

24.   Further north in Jenin, a local Hamas leader said Palestinian militant factions had banded together and given explosives belts to residents of the camp under siege.

25.   Former Fijian prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka said Thursday he is confident of reaching a peace agreement between the Solomon Islands government and militant factions on Guadalcanal island.

26.   Groups opposed to Israel-PLO peacemaking, including the Muslim militant faction Hamas, have said they would boycott the elections and have not fielded candidates.

27.   He played down reports that Syria may try to muffle militant Palestinian factions once it starts talks with Israel over the future of the Israel-occupied Golan Heights.

28.   He warned that a militant faction created by Mr. Bhutto to fight martial law would be reborn.

29.   He was referring to two militant Palestinian factions.

30.   He was said to be a ringleader of the most radical Islamic militant faction, the Armed Islamic Group.