Al Qaeda's ISIL retaliates from Islamist rebels in Raqqa, gains recorded

 The State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) has made gains against its rival Al Nusra Front and other Islamist groups in Raqqa, activists reported.

 The ISIL regained control of Al-Qatar and Al-Hazimeh streets in Al-Raqqa city after fierce clashes with Ahrar Al-Sham  Movement.

Al Qaeda radicals also took control of Tal Abyad, the border village with Turkey, most of its Kurdish inhabitants had fled to Northern Iraq and Turkey.

So far, tens of bodied are piled up in Raqqa National Hospital and in the streets of provincial capital. Activists reported 70 bodies in the hospital, 50 bodies from civilians and 200 corpses fro militants most of them belong to Ahrar Al Sham.

Raqqa is under ISIL's control soon after  Bashar al-Assad's regime lost control of the provincial capital.

 ISIL has its roots in Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and first appeared in the Syrian conflict in late spring last year.

Fighting pitting ISIL against other rebel groups -- including Al-Nusra Front, which is also linked to Al-Qaeda but is seen as more moderate -- broke out last Friday.

Hundreds of fighters on both sides have since been killed, according to the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a broad network of activists and doctors on the ground for its reports.

Civilians have also suffered as a result of the latest fighting.  

In relevant development, a bomb attack carried by ISIL in Idlib province killed at least five rebel fighters.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the incident took place on Saturday in Saraqeb, adding that ISIL was behind the attack.

The observatory further stated that the bomb was planted under a vehicle used by militants from Ahrar al-Sham brigade that has led the battle against ISIL militants in the area.

The attack came as the Ahrar al-Sham militants were preparing for an assault on an ISIL base in Idlib.

Syria's war broke out after Assad unleashed a brutal crackdown against pro-democracy uprising that erupted in March 2011. The war has killed more than 130,000 people and forced millions more to flee their homes.

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The video purports to show the aftermath of a car bombing carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Tal Mardiekh, targeting a Free Syrian Army base.