It was bombarded by rival Lebanese forces during the 15-year civil war.

Their agreement is important because they back rival forces.

In some instances, there have been outright shootouts between the rival forces.

After about a year, Hamas, an Islamic fundamentalist group, emerged as a rival force.

They have vowed to start a rival political force that could bring together a formidable new alliance of regional parties.

The rival forces set camp on opposing sides of the Nile River.

They said that all of the rival forces had withdrawn from the areas to be exchanged in the last few days.

With two rival Irish armed forces now in the country, civil war looked likely from the spring of 1922.

That spring, the rival forces clashed twice in three days.

It seemed that the rival forces in both east and west would meet at nearly the same time in terrible conflict.