The mountain inhabitants were not comfortable with the new French administration, and the first clash with it occurred in July 1922 with the arrest of Mujahid Adham Khanjar, who was coming to Sultan al-Atrash carrying a letter to him, the French arrested him for his involvement in the attack on General Gouraud in Huran, Sultan al-Atrash asked the French commander in As-Suwayda to hand him over Adham Khanjar and he replied him that Khanjar was on his way to Damascus. so Al-Atrash commissioned a group of his supporters to attack the armed convoy accompanying the detainee, but the French managed to transfer him to Lebanon and on 30 May 1923 executed in Beirut.