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Press TV has conducted an interview with Matar al Matar, a political commentator from Chicago, to discuss the widening rift between terrorist groups in Syria.

- First of all why has there been an escalation in fighting between the insurgents in Syria? I mean are not they supposed to be united?

- Actually no, because we should not include the ISIS as, really, part of the Syrian rebels because we can consider them as part of the Islamic State of Iraq that was established in 2005 and their agenda is totally different, even though they are having the same enemy but sometimes when you have different agendas, you are going to have the clashes, because the ISIS basically, they are thinking far ahead to establish their Islamic caliphate.

From Anbar they started that mission and Abu Musa Zarqwi was the first leader for the Islamic State of Iraq and now Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is continuing their mission and there is of course a conflict among the al-Qaeda fighters themselves because Ayman al Zawahiri was not happy about Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, so this can show that they have different points of view regarding their will regarding who is going to be the leader for al-Qaeda in Syria.

So the whole point now is the difference in agendas between the Syrian rebels even though they are most Islamists but they are trying to get the control back to their country to keep these foreign fighters, led by ISIS itself, because they are fighting only ISIS, they are not fighting the Jibhat al-Nusrah, even though the Jibhat al-Nusrah is among the terrorist organizations on the blacklist of the United States but they want to kick out the ISIS because of their radical perceived (interpretation) of Sharia Law which was very hated by all Syrian people in the areas they control, especially in al-Raqqa, they changed the churches to be as clerk centers.

So they did not declare a war against the ISIL by specific rebel groups but they created new groups called Jaish al Muhajirin and the Syrian Revolutionary Front, just to try to avoid any responsibility.

So you do not hear that specific rebellion that are fighting the ISIL but their whole point is that they are trying to lead the control back top their hands.

So they tried to just clean their face in front of the Western backers that we want to fight al-Qaeda.