Quarterly Journal of Political
Research in Islamic World

The new-Salafi trend in the Middle East, with its own discourse and disparate combination, actively involved the Syria crisis from its beginning, and gradually became one of the important and yet dangerous actors in the Syria equations. Accordingly, the current research prepares the answers to two interconnected questions, based on discourse analysis approach and analytic-descriptive method: First, what are the active new-Salafi groups in the Syria crisis? Second, what kind of interests and ends do these groups follow? The hypothesis is that the most organized new-Salafi  groups in Syria are ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) and Jeysholfath. The groups have different goals, beliefs, motivations, and interests. ISIL declared the establishment of an Islamic state in all over Muslim countries as its end.Other active new-Salafi groups have announced the overthrow of Assad’s regime and creating a new Islamic state in the Syria’s geographical regions as their goal in accordance with the principles of the new-Salafism. Also, the findings show that series of activities of these groups in the region, such as terror, bombing, murder of Alavis, and… have promoted the continuation of crisis, leading to spread the religious and tribal conflicts which may extend to beyond of Syria’s borders.