Al Qaeda affiliates clash over merits in Raqqa

Al-Qaeda affiliates have involved in internal skirmishes over merits in Raqqa city, east Syria. 

Field sources said that The State of Iraq and The Levant and its rival Jabhat al-Nusra went through in-between clashes this week over a building to make it a military base before resolving the dispute.

ISIL seems supremely confident of its destiny and has even defied the overall leader of al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri, who earlier this year instructed it to confine its operations to Iraq. Rather than cede the lead role in Syria to al Nusra, as Zawahiri ordered, ISIL last week called for "all jihadist leaders and soldiers and people to accelerate in joining the project of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," according to American analysts.