Adam Heffez. Using Women to Win in Syria // Al-Monitor (Eylül), 28 ноември 2013. Архивиран от оригинала на 11 ноември 2013. Посетен на 28 ноември 2013.
The UAE has it in for the Muslim Brotherhood // Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. 22 February 2017. Along with their American counterparts, Emirati special forces are said to be training elements of the opposition. They constitute a kind of Arab guarantee among the Syrian Democratic Forces – an umbrella group dominated by the Kurds of the PYD, on whom the US are relying to fight IS on the ground.
Worth, Robert F. A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS. Pan Macmillan, 2016. ISBN 9780374710712. с. 228. Посетен на 31 юли 2016. Assad was still in charge but he was utterly dependent on a diverse and toxic mix of volunteer warriors and `popular` militias, some of them manned by criminals. Not all of them were Syrian. A whole Shiite counter-jihad had formed – with fighters coming from Lebanon, Bahrain, even Afghanistan – under the supervision of Iran, Assad's patron.
The Last Battle of the 'Slavonic Corps' // Interpreter Mag (Translation of 'Fontanka'). Архивиран от оригинала на 2020-03-18. Посетен на 2024-06-26. 'Who we are fighting for – This was never understood. "When they spoke to us in Russia, they explained that we were going on a contract with the Syrian Ba'athist government, they convinced us that everything was legal and in order. Like, our government and the FSB were on board and involved in the project. When we arrived there, it turned out that we were sent as gladiators, under a contract with some Syrian or other, who may or may not have a relationship with the government… That meant that we were the private army of a local kingpin".'
ISIS Consolidates // London Review of Books. Посетен на 11 August 2014.
The Red Line and the Rat Line // London Review of Books. 17 April 2014. "A highly classified annex to the report, not made public [as described by one source, said that] the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi's arsenals into Syria...A spokesperson for Petraeus denied the operation ever took place.
C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition // The New York Times. 21 June 2012. The weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some antitank weapons, are being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria's Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey
Adam Heffez. Using Women to Win in Syria // Al-Monitor (Eylül), 28 ноември 2013. Архивиран от оригинала на 11 ноември 2013. Посетен на 28 ноември 2013.
The Last Battle of the 'Slavonic Corps' // Interpreter Mag (Translation of 'Fontanka'). Архивиран от оригинала на 2020-03-18. Посетен на 2024-06-26. 'Who we are fighting for – This was never understood. "When they spoke to us in Russia, they explained that we were going on a contract with the Syrian Ba'athist government, they convinced us that everything was legal and in order. Like, our government and the FSB were on board and involved in the project. When we arrived there, it turned out that we were sent as gladiators, under a contract with some Syrian or other, who may or may not have a relationship with the government… That meant that we were the private army of a local kingpin".'
