The immediate cause of the clashes was the killing of two anti-Syrian Sunni Muslim clerics on Sunday by the army at a checkpoint near Tripoli, already a tinderbox this month with a reported nine people killed and dozens wounded in clashes pitting a neighborhood of Alawites, the same sect as Mr. Assad's, against an adjacent Syrian Muslim neighborhood.
The Social Democrats refused to attend an emergency meeting Friday after conservative party leader and former prime minister Gruevski blamed them for the escalation of the violence, saying the party's "greed for power at any cost" was a "direct cause" of the clashes.
The exact cause of the clashes is not known, but there has been a long-running power struggle within al-Shabab involving its leader Ahmed Abdi Godane and ex-spokesman Muktar Ali Robow, analysts say.
The results of our analysis showed that the two different coordination processes largely affect the number of clashes in the first run of clash detection, coordination meeting time and efficiency, ease in finding root causes of the clashes, and number of coordination cycles to complete the coordination.
But their legacy will apparently extend beyond the weekend, as the cause of the afternoon clashes is determined.
But whatever the cause of the latest clashes, the conflict between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state has deep roots.
The opium question, the direct cause of the first Sino-British clash in the 19th century, began in the late 18th century as the British attempted to counterbalance their unfavourable China trade with traffic in Indian opium.
Getting to the root cause of a clash in management styles.
Brexit is many things, among them a train wreck caused by the clash of parliamentary democracy (which is what Britain was last time I checked) and plebiscitary democracy driven by lies or so-called fake news, which is where the world seems to be headed.
It is the paradoxical situation caused by the clash of globalisation with postmodernism.
