Voluntarios anarquistas del DAF cruzan a Kobane a combatir y otros a reconstruir la ciudad en septiembre de 2014 http://www.alasbarricadas.org/noticias/node/32460 Consultado el 22 de julio de 2016
Worth, Robert F. (2016). A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS. Pan Macmillan. p. 228. Consultado el 31 de julio de 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.»
«Ocho meses de protestas y represión». El Mundo. 29 de noviembre de 2011. ««Miles se concentran en las principales ciudades sirias respondiendo a la convocatoria por Facebook de un 'Día de la Ira'»».
Nelson, Lara (18 de noviembre de 2015). «The Shia jihad and the death of Syria's army». Middle East Eye. Consultado el 11 de octubre de 2016. «Without the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Lebanese Hezbollah the army could not stand up. [For example, in "the largest and most important military force for Assad in southern Syria" – Division 9,] Seventy percent of the troops … are Iranian troops or Lebanese Hezbollah, the rest are shabiha. Only two to three percent are regular Syrian soldiers.»
Sparrow, Annie (20 de febrero de 2014). «Syria's Polio Epidemic: The Suppressed Truth». New York Review. Consultado el 23 de enero de 2014. «Even before the uprising, in areas considered politically unsympathetic like Deir Ezzor, the government stopped maintaining sanitation and safe-water services, and began withholding routine immunizations for preventable childhood diseases. Once the war began, the government started ruthless attacks on civilians in opposition-held areas, forcing millions to seek refuge in filthy, crowded, and cold conditions.»
