But it may represent little more than the latest skirmish in a seemingly endless internecine war.

For him the real nightmare would be internecine war with the dissidents turning on the provisionals.

Royalist officers, split between liberals and conservatives, fought an internecine war among themselves.

They are foreground headlines, they are internecine wars, they are allegedly bribes and envelopes containing $40,000 (24,255) bundles of notes.

It also led to relentless internecine wars whenever two familial lines wound up with goals in conflict.