Some regional factions formed new liberal parties in the second half of 1990s:

Twenty years of war have left Afghanistan so devastated that the only remaining basis for politics lies in ethnic and regional factions.

The convention broke up without arriving at a compromise and the two regional factions then acted independently.

If so, they will no doubt try to form a government with the help of splinter groups and regional factions.

A major weakness of Kurdish national cohesiveness has been the strength of tribal and regional factions, often resulting in strong breaks between political parties.

There are running feuds between regional factions, and between those who want power concentrated in statewide officers rather than in county ones.

For tensions between regional factions within the party have constantly subordinated a consensus on development policy to the struggle for power.

With a vacuum at the center of the party, various regional and political factions, and power brokers, are vying for control.

He transformed Calles's party of regional factions and ideological currents into an organization that fully incorporated the populist masses.

The armed forces, who had been united against the French, fragmented into warring regional factions.