Studies in Conflict & Terrorism should revise its peer review process:articles in which purported interviews w/ jihadists/militants come from paying & #39;local journalists/sources& #39; etc. in conflict zones to conduct them should be rejected.Fertile ground for BS https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1799508">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

At the minimum, the writer of the article should conduct all the interviews. Even in this regard there are opportunities to be misled by & #39;fixers& #39;, but it is especially problematic to outsource interview work in this way.

From that specific article, I noted that a number of quotations & claims are traced to an & #39;interview with A**H, JFaS [Jabhat Fatah al-Sham] commander in Deir Ez-zor, November 2016.& #39; Well, there was no Jabhat Fatah al-Sham in Deir az-Zor at that time...

(unless of course the group was operating some underground cells there; in which case, baffling how his interview team could have reached such a person to give these various claims and statements...)