warring
adjective
envoys for peace are trying to bring the warring factions together:
opposing, conflicting, clashing, at war, contending, fighting, battling, quarreling;
pugnacious, quarrelsome, aggressive, belligerent, militant, martial, warlike, warmongering;
competing, hostile, rival, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn;
informal at each other's throats.