Did a photo of troops sleeping on a floor, shared amid President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard in California in June 2025, in fact date to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021? No, that's not true: the AI chatbot
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The Dispatch→ Get Out by Good Friday, Feds Say to Afghan Christians
The Department of Homeland Security has revoked immigration status of some Afghans who fled to the U.S.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FEMA Official Did NOT Say They Plan ‘To Execute 70 To 80,000 People’ — Gaffe Was Uttered/Corrected During 2021 Hearing On Afghanistan
Does an audio recording show that a FEMA official said "We plan to execute between 70 and 80 ... We plan to evacuate between 70 and 80,000 people"? No, that's not true: This quote was said by Lloyd Austin, then the U.S. Secretary of Defen
PolitiFact→ Sam Brown – Did Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen say Joe Biden did a ‘tremendous job' on Afghanistan withdrawal?
Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen said the Biden administration did a "tremendous job" on the U.S. military’s Afghanistan withdrawal.
Full Fact→ Video shows US military depot, not tanks left in Afghanistan
Posts online falsely claim a video shows US military equipment “given” to the Taliban when it withdrew from Afghanistan.
The Dispatch→ House Report on Afghanistan Withdrawal Blames Biden Administration
The Republican-authored report paints a damning picture of Kabul’s 2021 fall but offers few new revelations.
AllSides→ Assessing Claims That Trump Freed the Leader of Afghanistan From Prison in 2018
https://thedispatch.com/article/assessing-claims-that-trump-freed-the-leader-of-afghanistan-from-prison-in-2018/
The Dispatch→ Who Lost Afghanistan?
Trump now criticizes Biden for playing the hand the former president dealt him.
The Dispatch→ Assessing Claims That Trump Freed the Leader of Afghanistan From Prison in 2018
A U.S. diplomat in the Trump administration reportedly requested Abdul Ghani Baradar’s release to advance peace negotiations.
AllSides→ Trump appears to have misled Gold Star families on troop deaths in Afghanistan
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/04/trump-misled-gold-star-families-troop-deaths-afghanistan/
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Tim Walz Did NOT Lie About Having Served In Afghanistan — He Said He Visited That Country As Congressman
Does a video show Tim Walz lying about having served in a U.S. military deployment to Afghanistan? No, that's not true: Walz told the American Legion about a 2011 trip to Afghanistan he took as a member of Congress. He did not say he had
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Biden Or Harris Declined To Attend August 2024 Arlington Memorial Ceremony For Service Members Killed In Afghanistan
Did President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris decline to attend a memorial ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in August 2024 for the 13 U.S. military service members who were killed in Afghanistan three years earlier? No,
The Dispatch→ Viral Tweet Falsely Accuses Walz of Claiming He Served in Afghanistan
A video accompanying the tweet shows that Walz didn’t use those words.
PolitiFact→ Brigitte Gabriel – 18-month stretch of no U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan includes time under Biden
"For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: German Politician NOT Convicted, Fined For Merely Posting Statistics About Sexual Assaults By Afghan Immigrants
Was German politician Marie-Thérèse Kaiser convicted and fined in May 2024 solely for sharing statistics regarding sexual assaults committed by Afghan immigrants? No, that's not true: Kaiser was found guilty of "incitement to hatred" un
Logically→ Old image of U.S. Navy captain in Afghanistan falsely linked to Israel-Hamas conflict
The Dispatch→ We Can Still Help Afghanistan—By Letting the Taliban Collapse
Humanitarian aid isn’t preventing starvation or hardship, but it is propping up the regime.
Logically→ 2021 photo from Afghanistan shared to show empty classrooms in Gaza amid Israel-Hamas conflict
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Cargo plane that evacuated people from Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021 is real, not a decoy
Video shows an “inflatable decoy plane” at the Kabul airport in 2021.
Logically→ Julian Assange’s comments on Afghanistan falsely linked to Ukraine-Russia conflict
The Dispatch→ Afghan Allies Still in Limbo
Nearly 90 percent of Afghan humanitarian parole recipients are still waiting to learn their fates.
The Dispatch→ The Afghanistan Withdrawal, Two Years Later
‘Admit to your mistakes, learn from them, so that this doesn’t happen ever, ever again.’
The Dispatch→ Afghanistan After-Action Report Fuels GOP Oversight Plans
Plus: An interview with Sen. Jeff Merkley on China policy.
Logically→ Old visuals from Taliban military parade falsely linked to recent Iran-Afghanistan clashes
Full Fact→ Video showing ‘NATO soldiers now in Ukraine’ was filmed in Afghanistan in 2021
A video shared on social media was filmed during evacuations from Kabul in August 2021, not in Ukraine.
Logically→ Old video of U.S. army withdrawing from Afghanistan falsely shared as NATO forces in Ukraine
The Dispatch→ How Afghanistan Has Become Another Notch in China’s Belt
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang meets with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 6, 2023. (Photo by Jiang Chao/Xinhua/Getty Images)Our disastrous withdrawal paved the way for a partnership between the Taliban a
The Dispatch→ Covering Afghanistan in Exile
Amu TV anchor Nazia Hashimyar. (Contributed Photo)Afghan journalists launch a news organization to cover their home country from afar.Continue reading Covering Afghanistan in Exile »
The Dispatch→ Biden’s Afghanistan Blame Game
American soldiers watch over Afghan refugees waiting in line to be processed for an exit flight out of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)‘For all this talk of chaos, I just didn’t see it, not from my perc
The Dispatch→ McCaul Pushes for State Department’s Afghanistan Docs
Rep. Michael McCaul speaks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Plus: A researcher calls for Congress to sanction Xi Jinping.Continue reading Mc
The Dispatch→ House GOP’s Afghanistan Investigation Kicks Off
A C-17 Globemaster takes off as Taliban fighters secure the outer perimeter of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, August 29, 2021. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)Members will examine the chaotic August 2021 evacuatio
Full Fact→ £7 million daily cost of hotel accommodation includes cost of housing Afghan refugees
Articles in the Daily Express and Daily Mail wrongly claimed that almost £7 million a day is being spent on hotels for people who either arrived in the UK illegally or are awaiting deportation.
FactCheck.org→ U.S. Spent Much More in Afghan War Than in Support for Ukraine So Far, Contrary to Online Claim
Quick Take The U.S. spent more than $849 billion in the 20-year war in Afghanistan and has spent about $113 billion to support Ukraine since Russia invaded in 2022. But a video on social media falsely claims that the aid for Ukraine is
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – U.S. spending in Afghanistan dwarfs aid to Ukraine
The amount the U.S. has spent in Ukraine is “double the U.S. expenditure for its own war in Afghanistan.”
PolitiFact→ Tom Tiffany – Tiffany misses the mark with claim that Biden left Marines behind in Afghanistan, Russia
“Joe Biden left Marines behind in Afghanistan. And now he left a Marine behind in Russia.”
PolitiFact→ Joe Biden – Despite his claim, Joe Biden has not visited Afghanistan or Iraq as president
Says he has been to “Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas” twice as president.
Snopes→ Afghanistan Quake Kills 1,000 People, Deadliest in Decades
Officials warned that the already grim toll may still rise.
Full Fact→ Reports that ‘Bernie Gores’ died in both Uvalde school shooting and Afghanistan are fake
A number of posts spreading false reports of a man’s death are circulating on Facebook. The posts share two side-by-side images of a man supposedly named Bernie Gores, one of which claims that he was a teacher killed in the Robb Elementary School
Poynter→ No, CNN didn’t report that the same man died in Afghanistan and Uvalde
Attempts to discredit tragic events like mass shootings can come in many different forms. One popular tactic is claims about “crisis actors” — people who take part in a supposed […] The post No, CNN didn’t report that the same man
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, CNN didn’t report that the same man died in Afghanistan and Uvalde
CNN is recycling crisis actors in reports about a man dying in Afghanistan in 2021 and at the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting in 2022.