The deadly conflict between Islamic armed factions of the religious minority of Druze near Damascus, security forces and combatants is another sign of the continued fragility of the security situation in Syria, which is the vulnerability of Syria after Bashar al-Assad overthrew.

The outside players were once again involved, and Israel said it carried out air strikes to protect Druze civilians.

It marks another fault line in Syria, which has been broken and split after a devastating civil war and decades of authoritarian rule by the Assad dynasty.

The new Syrian authorities say they are determined to bring solidarity and stability, but at home and abroad, many still point to their roots in the jihad and still doubt their agenda.

Before President Assad was overthrown, his rule had been reestablished in the major cities of Syria and on the highways between them - and the coastal heart of the Alawite denomination to which his family belonged.

But there are other areas that are partially or almost completely out of control.

They include Idlib in the north, where his Islamic rebel faction, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) (former al-Qaeda (HTS)) was won last December.

In the northeast, Syrian Kurdish forces remained semi-autonomous throughout the civil war and beyond.

In southern Damascus, Druze's autonomy was also limited.

These divisions remain, although the Alawites are now the worst flashpoint for the new Syrian rulers.

In March, the days of fighting between security forces and combatants remained loyal to Assad, killing hundreds of people, including civilians. Other armed factions related to the new authorities also involved the new authorities and revenge against the local Alavi factions.

This violence is the greatest fear for those who support Sharaa and oppose him.

The latest conflict in southern Damascus once again involves warriors from several armed factions in Syria and Druze. Their religion is a branch of Islam, not only in Syria, but also in Lebanon, Jordan and Israel.

It was the connection with Israel that prompted the country's air force to strike several strikes in the battles in and around the town of Ashrafiyat Sahnaya on Wednesday.

The Israeli government said the action was a warning to Syrian authorities to prevent harm to Druze.

Syrian authorities said security forces were deployed to Ashrafiyat Sahnaya to restore security and stability, accusing its so-called "Outlaw Groups" of inciting conflict.

But Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Syrian Druze community, condemned violence as an "unreasonable genocide movement" and said people have been defending the attacks by extremists.

According to Syrian human rights observers, at least 101 people were killed this week in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya (mainly Jaramana in the suburbs of Druze) and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya in the southern province of Suweida, which has a Druze majority.

The UK-based monitoring team said it included 71 members of the Druze community, including 10 civilians and 35 gunmen, who were shot dead in an ambush while traveling from Suweida to Damascus on Wednesday, as well as 30 security forces and allied armed groups.

At least for now, the violence has been eased and the government is said to have reached a ceasefire with local Druze leaders.

But the suddenness and cruelty of the conflict - seemingly due to the recording of audio played on social media that insulted the Prophet Muhammad, which was due to the misattribute of Pastor Druze to Muhammad - shows the potential for Syria to slide into the conflict.

There is mutual suspicion between the new Islam-led authorities and religious minorities such as the Alawites and Druze.

It is a combustible mixture that only countries such as Israel and Türkiye continue to play further incite. Both have improved interests in Syria since the fall of Assad.

Israel has occupied more land in southern Syria beyond the long-established Golan Heights.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the complete demilitarization of Suweida and two other provinces in southern Damascus. He said the new Syrian government is an extremist and the presence of its security forces anywhere near the border will represent a threat to Israel.

Israel has played a link with the Druze community in the region, and even if many Syrian druzes themselves don’t see this way.

The new authorities in Damascus rejected Israel’s move because they were eager to make it clear that they did not seek a conflict with Israel, although they were eager to make them clear.

Türkiye, the main sponsor of the rebels, eventually ousted Assad, which established close ties with the country's new leaders. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned Israel's latest military intervention in Syria as a "dangerous and unacceptable provocation."

Tensions between Türkiye and Israel among different goals in New Syria add to another complexity of the many problems faced by Sala and its government.

So many troops inside and outside Syria remain dangerous to each other and despite some success so far, the goal of reunifying and stabilizing the country remains a huge challenge.

Syria will need a lot of breathing space and financial and political support from the international community to make the real progress of its citizens towards a better future and be poor and uprooted by years of fierce conflict.