Syria is at risk of being a Libya if things don't turn out right and a strong man becomes leader. Too many people and groups armed to the teeth and not afraid of war as many grew up in war.
People are understandably expressing their anger and frustration at their economic situation, which is a result of years of war and now the rise of fuel and other essentials and services. There is much more to it, but that's essentially the short version of it, and they are demonstrating as people typically do when they feel hopeless and want to blame someone for it. At least now, they don't feel the terrorizing fear as before just to express themselves when they feel they desperately need to to be heard by their rulers, and aren't worried about being slaughtered en masse. So they are exercising some of their newly earned and well deserved freedoms.
Maybe carrying it too far with alot of the civilian destruction and road blocks and other things we've seen as well, but they're new at this, they're still figuring it out. They're also pretty pissed, anger has been building up to this for months, the massive fuel price increases is the last nail. But the government has no funding available to do anything of any consequence and has no ability to help them materially at the moments, so all you can do is let them vent if you are in charge right now.
Government must not make the same mistakes as the pst one, and immediately rush to brutal repression. We want different types of governments than you might prefer, and definitely not the same from the one we literally just freed ourselves from.
Hopefully, security forces can tactfully operate to minimize any damage to our cities and infrastructure, clear disruptions to our roadways, but still let them demonstrate peacefully. Or mostly peacefully lol. At least they deserve and earned to do that.