What we cite

  • Global wire services — AP, Reuters, and AFP — the baseline for breaking facts. Independent media raters consistently score the wires highest for factual reliability with minimal bias.
  • International broadcasters across regions — Al Jazeera English, BBC, France 24, Deutsche Welle, PBS/NPR. No single newsroom sees every conflict the same way, so we deliberately draw on outlets rooted in different parts of the world.
  • Specialist research organizations and conflict-data projects — such as the Institute for the Study of War, ACLED, SIPRI, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, the International Crisis Group, Airwars, or Bellingcat — where their methodology is public and their work is independently checkable.
  • Official and intergovernmental sources — UN agencies, governments, and militaries, always identified as the claimant rather than treated as neutral fact.
  • Primary documents — UN resolutions, official statements, treaties — linked directly where possible.

How we stay neutral

Neutrality here is a process, not a claim about any single outlet. For contested facts — casualty figures, who struck whom, who-struck-first claims, anything the parties dispute — we require two independent sources from different owners in different regions before publishing. A claim confirmed by only one outlet is either attributed inline with the limitation stated, or dropped. State-funded outlets may back non-contested facts but never stand alone on a contested claim.

What we do not cite

  • Anonymous social-media accounts as sole evidence for a claim.
  • Outlets with a documented record of fabrication or state-directed disinformation.
  • Other aggregators or blogs repeating a claim without their own sourcing — we go upstream to the original reporting.
  • AI-generated content, synthetic media, or unverifiable viral posts.

How sources appear

Every article ends with a Sources box listing each publication or organization whose reporting the article draws on, linked directly. In-text, claims are attributed by name. If you cannot tell where a fact came from, that is a bug — tell us at tips@warinfohub.com.