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Iraq Monitorعين على العراقPrimary-source intelligence
57,779 claims tracked · 12,727 checked to a conclusion

The claim record

Iraq’s armed factions and their media channels assert things about the world every day. This is the running count of how much of it independent reporting ever bears out — measured claim by claim, with the test for each one written down before the answer was known.

83%

Asaib Ahl al-Haq is the channel whose claims most often turn up in reporting from outside the militia information space — 12 claims checked to a conclusion.

12%

FAA is the least traceable of the channels with enough checked claims to rate — the same test, 42 claims.

2221

Al-Ahad TV has been checked to a conclusion more times than any other channel — the largest sample on this page, out of 9,841 claims made.

What this measures, exactly. Only 89 of 12,727 checked claims were positively contradicted by outside reporting. So this is not a lie detector, and the rate is not a truthfulness score. It measures how much of what a source says leaves an independent trace — and a claim can go untraced because Iraqi coverage is thin that week, not because it is false. Only the contradicted column carries a finding against a source. How a claim is entered, tested and settled →

By group
SourceClaimsChecked the ladder has run outTraced found in outside reportingTraced rateContradicted
Badr Organization11,6513,00881527%14
KH15,1302,87886630%14
AAH9,9652,25169231%17
KSS9,5512,12663330%20
Nujaba6,4381,41836626%15
Ashab al-Kahf2,87953914427%6
Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina1,71246213329%3
Ansar Allah al-Awfiya44242512%
Islamic Resistance in Iraq522too few
Kataib al-Imam Ali611too few

A group’s flagship channel and its supporter-amplifiers do not have the same record, and the difference between them is usually the more useful finding.

By channel
SourceClaimsChecked the ladder has run outTraced found in outside reportingTraced rateContradicted
Al-Ahad TVAAH · official owned media9,8412,22167330%17
Al-Ghadeer TVBadr Organization · official owned media8,5041,97754127%10
iNEWSKSS · affiliated/aligned media5,9951,26639831%11
Al-Nujaba TVNujaba · official owned media4,7431,17729125%10
Sabereen NewsKH · affiliated/aligned media5,7121,03534433%5
Watan TVBadr Organization · affiliated/aligned media3,0981,01827127%4
Al-Ittijah TVKH · official owned media4,8591,00228028%5
Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibiKSS · affiliated/aligned media3,52085923427%9
Unit 10,000KH · affiliated/aligned media4,54583524229%3
Shabab al-IslamAshab al-Kahf · owned/non-official media2,87953914427%6
Al-Janoub TVHarakat al-Jihad wal-Bina · official owned media1,66445713028%3
Jehad Brothers TeamNujaba · affiliated/aligned media1,6832367431%5
FAAAnsar Allah al-Awfiya · official social media channel44242512%
Baa PlatformBadr Organization · official social media channel4913323%
Asaib Ahl al-HaqAAH · official armed group channel63121083%
Qais al-Khazali media officeAAH · official leader office5112650%
KAF CenterKH · official social media channel1460too few1
Al-Sharwgy 313AAH · unofficial leadership signal channel1063too few
Harakat al-Jihad wal-BinaHarakat al-Jihad wal-Bina · official social media channel4853too few
Akram al-Kaabi channelNujaba · official leader channel640too few
Al-Ilam al-HarbiIslamic Resistance in Iraq · affiliated/aligned media522too few
Shibl al-Zaidi channelKataib al-Imam Ali · official leader channel611too few
Saed al-ShuhadaKSS · official armed group channel511too few
Harakat Hezbollah al-NujabaNujaba · official armed group channel211too few
S MediaKSS · official social media channel1800too few
Abu Alaa al-Walai channelKSS · official leader channel1000too few
Noon MediaNujaba · official social media channel400too few
Saraya Awliya al-DamKSS · front/facade300too few

Contradicted at least once: KSS (20) · AAH (17) · Al-Ahad TV (17) · Nujaba (15) · Badr Organization (14) · KH (14) · iNEWS (11) · Al-Ghadeer TV (10) · Al-Nujaba TV (10) · Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi (9) · Ashab al-Kahf (6) · Shabab al-Islam (6) · Sabereen News (5) · Al-Ittijah TV (5) · Jehad Brothers Team (5) · Watan TV (4) · Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina (3) · Unit 10,000 (3) · Al-Janoub TV (3) · KAF Center (1)

No rate is shown below 10 checked claims — “1 of 2” is not “50%”, and a percentage travels further than the sentence qualifying it. Claims about events outside Iraq are collected and counted but never rated: this desk’s independent record is built from reporting inside Iraq, so scoring a claimed strike on Eilat would measure our reach, not the claim. Cite as: Iraq Monitor, “The claim record,” iraqmonitor.com/record.