Christopher Kozak, The Regime's Military Capabilities: Part 1, su iswsyria.blogspot.co.uk, ISW, 26 maggio 2015. URL consultato il 31 maggio 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 27 maggio 2015).
«Local NDF commanders often engage in war profiteering through protection rackets, looting, and organized crime. NDF members have been implicated in waves of murders, robberies, thefts, kidnappings, and extortions throughout regime-held parts of Syria since the formation of the organization in 2013.»
