31.   The clash erupted along the main street in Dushanbe between two feuding factions that control territory in the eastern part of Dushanbe, witnesses said.

32.   The feuding factions are now suing one another.

33.   The parliament session in the eastern town of Bijeljina followed weeks of fruitless negotiations between feuding Serb factions over who should be the new premier.

34.   The Taliban, which originally emerged out of disgust with the feuding factions, quickly became embroiled in the struggle for power.

35.   The two feuding factions remained deadlocked since September.

36.   The two feuding factions cannot agree on the premier and the composition of the new government.

37.   Feuding Kurdish factions in northern Iraq have called a ceasefire and set up a joint body to implement the agreement, the Iraqi opposition said Saturday.

38.   Iraq on Saturday launched a fresh appeal for feuding Kurdish factions to hold talks and rid themselves of US-led allied protection.

39.   But the shock of losing Kabul and the Taliban push towards the north proved to be the catalyst needed to throw the previously feuding factions together.

40.   Feuding Iraqi Kurd factions were due to hold a special meeting of their parliament on neutral ground Saturday to extend its mandate for a year, Kurdish sources said.