There were smaller scale clashes in May between Assad loyalists and Kurds in Hassakeh that were contained.
Once war broke out, intermittent, small-scale clashes between natives and foreigners intensified.
Riots and small-scale clashes – known in local slang as "tawuran" – occur here on a regular basis.
Several mostly small-scale clashes have taken place in the West Bank and Gaza in the past week.
Was Nasser merely trying to deter the Jewish state from attacking Syria, after months of small-scale clashes there?
Uighurs report that small-scale clashes break out nearly every day between Chinese and Uighurs in Xinjiang's western cities.
Many protesters have remained in the district and there were small-scale clashes on Sunday, with a police spokesman saying it remained a "high-risk" area.
Then the police were alerted and the boy was killed immediately.A series of small-scale clashes between government forces and a militia attached to Renamo, the main opposition party, have added to the general disquiet.
In 2006, however, similarly small-scale clashes were among the coup leaders' excuses for deposing the elected government.The protests' return may mark the end of several months of phoney war between the two main camps in Thai politics.
Large sections of the public and the media - familiar with demonstrations and small-scale clashes between security forces and protesters - were taken aback.
