A reusable register of inspected reporting, documents, entities, relationships and investigative questions.
Source dates, authors, provenance and access limits are explicit. No unverified archived URL is invented. A missing archived copy is recorded as “not verified”. Sources that repeat a report are not counted as independent confirmation.
SRC-AC · Interview with the Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo (FMAA)
Publisher
Atlantic Council / SyriaSource
Author
Youssef Sadaki
Published
2017-02-28
Type
Interview
Reviewed
2026-10-27
Archive copy
Not verified
Online correspondence with Saleh al-Saleh, the faction’s external political-relations coordinator. Primary evidence of its public position, not independent verification of its claims. HTML publication metadata and publisher archive agree on the date.
SRC-BC · The New Syrian Army: America’s “Tip of the Spear” Against ISIS in the Syrian Desert
Publisher
Bellingcat
Author
Rao Komar
Published
2016-05-18
Type
Reporting
Reviewed
2026-10-27
Archive copy
Not verified
Original page inspected. Its opening identifies FMAA as US/Jordan-backed; most equipment analysis concerns the New Syrian Army, which must not be relabeled FMAA. Page metadata indicates a later modification on 18 August 2017.
SRC-RE · Syrian Rebels Say U.S., Allies Push For Retreat From Southeast Syria
Publisher
Reuters, republished by Radio Farda
Author
Reuters; individual byline not displayed in the inspected republication
Published
2017-09-10
Type
Reporting
Reviewed
2026-10-27
Archive copy
Not verified
Rebel and diplomatic sourcing; Reuters describes seeing a purported letter. The statement attributed to Badr al-Din al-Salamah is not a statement by FMAA’s commander. No specific financial account is identified.
Reuters dispatch dated 10 September in CRS footnote 13; accessible Radio Farda republication dated 11 September 2017. Original Reuters URL not independently recovered.
SRC-CRS · Jordan: Background and U.S. Relations, RL33546
Publisher
Congressional Research Service, hosted by EveryCRSReport
Author
CRS; individual author not verified in inspected HTML
Published
2017-11-14
Type
Government research report
Reviewed
2026-10-27
Archive copy
Not verified
Explicitly says CRS cannot independently confirm media reports about training and withdrawal instructions. Its citation to Reuters is derivative, not independent corroboration.
SRC-SOHR · Syria-Iraq-Jordan border triangle: MOC-backed factions near al-Rukban
Publisher
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Author
SOHR; no individual byline displayed
Published
2021-10-13
Type
Reporting
Reviewed
2026-10-27
Archive copy
Not verified
Retrospective monitor account describes MOC materiel support and a July 2017 cutoff. Underlying allocation records are not supplied; its exact cutoff date is not established independently here.
SRC-NA · Social Networks, Class, and the Syrian Proxy War
Publisher
New America
Author
Anand Gopal and Jeremy Hodge
Published
2021-04-06
Type
Reporting
Reviewed
2026-10-27
Archive copy
Not verified
Inspected analytical discussion identifies Timber Sycamore as a CIA program and describes Saudi financing in the broader opposition context. It is not evidence of a particular FMAA payment. Publisher page gives 6 April 2021 and names Anand Gopal and Jeremy Hodge.
SRC-SBS · Exclusive: Melbourne man posing as Australian MP cons displaced Syrians in visa scam
Publisher
SBS News
Author
Ali Bahnasawy, Lin Evlin and Maani Truu
Published
2019-09-09
Type
Reporting
Reviewed
2026-10-27
Archive copy
Not verified
Identifies Mounzer Kheder and reports his denial of wrongdoing. Does not authenticate or mention the archive cheque, establish the email’s ownership or establish a conviction.
SRC-SBS2 · Exclusive: More than 500 visa scams a year are being reported in Australia
Publisher
SBS News
Author
Lin Evlin
Published
2019-11-21
Type
Reporting
Reviewed
2026-10-27
Archive copy
Not verified
Follow-up revisits the September reporting in wider fraud statistics. Not independent corroboration of the cheque/name match or an official case outcome.
SRC-DOD · Department of Defense press briefing by Peter Cook
Publisher
US Department of Defense
Author
Peter Cook
Published
2016-06-27
Type
Reporting
Reviewed
2026-10-27
Archive copy
Not verified
Official account of the 16 June al-Tanf airstrike. The assessment of actors and events is attributed to the briefing; it does not authenticate source papers.
Authenticated primary material or comparably strong evidence.
Independently Reported
Identifiable published reporting; the underlying event may still depend on attributed or anonymous sources.
Corroborated
Multiple meaningfully independent lines of evidence, not translations or syndicated copies.
Unverified
A supplied document or attributed claim whose underlying truth is not established.
Disputed
Credible sources materially disagree; ordinary changes over time do not qualify.
Research Lead
An unresolved question, not an established relationship.
A visual edge means only its labeled relationship. Placement never implies guilt, financial ownership, coordination or a payment. Syndicated copies and supplied translations are not independent corroboration.