Click here to access article by Tony Cartalucci from Land Destroyer Report.
The author refers to a recent report from the NY Times which confirms earlier reports from a variety of sources that the Empire is sponsoring terrorist groups in Syria. This is a deliberate strategy that Empire agents have used in the past to destabilize countries. It's called the Salvador Option. Although tried out earlier in the Vietnam War, it was perfected in El Salvador to create chaos so that the people could not effectively fight against Empire-backed forces.
If you need further information on this diabolical strategy, I suggest reading this, this, this, and this.