In a TV speech, Ahmed al-Sharaa accuses "armed groups in Sweida" of reviving the conflict. He also says that Israel's involvement in the conflict "drives the country towards a dangerous situation".
On Saturday evening, SOHR reported that clan fighters had withdrawn from Sweida after druse forces launched a large-scale offensive. Fighting is said to continue in other parts of the province.
At the same time, the country's interior ministry reports that security forces have set up roadblocks in an attempt to prevent more people from joining the fighting.
Over 900 dead
So far, the fighting has claimed around 940 lives since the violence broke out on Sunday, according to SOHR on Saturday.
Of these, 326 are druse militiamen and 262 are druse civilians, of which 182 have been "executed" by personnel from the defense and interior ministries.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ahmed al-Sharaa agreed on Saturday on a ceasefire brokered by the US. The agreement is also supported by Turkey and Jordan, according to the US envoy Tom Barrack on X.
The EU also welcomes the agreement and France urges all parties to "strictly follow" the ceasefire.
Israel allows intervention
On Wednesday, Israel carried out air strikes against, among other things, Syria's defense ministry in Damascus, citing the desire to defend druse and reduce the presence of Syrian government forces in southwestern Syria.
But on Friday, Israel said it would allow Syrian security forces to enter Sweida for 48 hours, according to The Times of Israel. Israel's own druse population has demanded that Jerusalem act to protect druse on the other side of the border, according to the newspaper.
The clashes between druse and bedouin broke out in Sweida on Sunday. Syrian government forces later entered the area, but were accused of killing druse civilians in the fighting.
Ahmed al-Sharaa repeated in his TV speech that Sweida "remains an integral part of the Syrian state, and that the druse constitute a fundamental pillar in the national Syrian structure".
Corrected: In an earlier version, the wrong title was given for Benjamin Netanyahu.
