Humanitarian aid isn’t preventing starvation or hardship, but it is propping up the regime.
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Logically→ Old visuals from Taliban military parade falsely linked to recent Iran-Afghanistan clashes
Logically→ No, this photo doesn’t show the Taliban declaring victory over Iran
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Taliban Sent ‘Real Tweet’ Claiming To Have ‘Second-Largest Collection Of Humvees Behind’ US
Does a "real tweet" from a Twitter account called "Taliban Public Relations Department, Commentary" proclaim that Afghanistan has the second-largest collection of Humvees behind the United States? No, that's not true: There is no proof th
AllSides→ Did the Trump Admin Agree to Free 5,000 Taliban Prisoners?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-5000-taliban-prisoners/ In early December 2022, we received inq
The Dispatch→ The Taliban’s Gender Apartheid Regime
Two decades of advances for women have disappeared in 13 months.The post The Taliban’s Gender Apartheid Regime appeared first on The Dispatch.
Logically→ A top Taliban official praised the BJP and RSS as being very powerful in India.
A Pakistani Islamic scholar talking about the BJP and RSS has been misidentified as the Taliban chief secretary.
Snopes→ Taliban Under Scrutiny As US Kills Al-Qaida Leader in Kabul
The Taliban had promised in the 2020 Doha Agreement on the terms of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan that they would not harbor al-Qaida members.
Snopes→ Taliban Cancels Girls’ Higher Education Despite Pledges
The unexpected decision came at the start of the new school year in Afghanistan.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Heavy Fighting Between Russia And Ukraine — It’s US, Afghan Forces In Taliban Territory In 2011
Does a Facebook video show heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces? No, that's not true: The video shows U.S. and Afghan National Army (ANA) forces fighting the Taliban in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, during Operation Creat
Snopes→ Did the Taliban Call for a ‘Peaceful’ Resolution in Ukraine?
The Taliban took over the Afghan government in August 2021.
Snopes→ Before Takeover, Taliban Reportedly Offered to Let US Secure Kabul and Airport
Panic, uncertainty, and surprise marked the last days of U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan.
FactCheck.org→ U.S. Is Sending Aid to Independent Groups in Afghanistan, Not the Taliban
Quick Take The U.S. is providing humanitarian aid through several independent organizations in Afghanistan, but not through the Taliban government. Yet an online article falsely claims that the Biden administration will “send the Taliban millions
Snopes→ Taliban Official: Strict Punishment, Executions Will Return
One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.
Snopes→ Does the Taliban Have a Tesla Cybertruck?
Two doctored images made it seem as if the Taliban had some fancy wheels.
Logically→ Taliban has banned feminine hygiene products in Afghanistan.
Doctored screenshots falsely claim that the Taliban banned feminine hygiene products in Afghanistan. No credible media reports have reported as such.
Logically→ Taliban flogging a woman in Afghanistan.
Articles have pointed out that the Taliban were flogging women as a punishment for disobeying their rules/laws or demanding their rights.
Logically→ The Taliban found 6.5M dollars stored in Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh’s home.
Islamic Emirate officials alleged that 6.5 M dollars were found from Amrullah Saleh's residence during a raid. This has not been confirmed.
Logically→ Afghan politician Dr. Abdullah Abdullah has been captured by the Taliban.
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, an Afghan politician, clarified via Twitter on September 10 that reports that the Taliban had detained him were false.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This Video Is NOT Footage of Taliban With Anti-Aircraft Weapons — It’s A Video Game
Does footage released after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan show the insurgents using anti-aircraft weaponry? No, that's not true: The footage is from the video game Arma 3. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) publis
Full Fact→ What we know about the Taliban and Covid-19
A post on Facebook claims that the Taliban survived the pandemic with “no vaccines, social distancing, PCR testing, masks” and were still able “to then recapture an entire country with no mass deaths amongst their population during a
Logically→ Amrullah Saleh and Ahmad Massoud fled to Tajikstan over the oppression by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
For security concerns, Saleh and Massoud were not in contact with the public, and their absence was misinterpreted as having abandoned the nation.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Taliban And Afghanistan Did NOT Skip Vaccines, Escape Mass Deaths During Global COVID-19 Pandemic
Did the Taliban survive from February 2020 through August 2021 with no vaccines, no masks or business shutdowns and capture Afghanistan with no mass deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic? No, that's not true: These claims were made without
Snopes→ Taliban Form All-Male Afghan Government of Old Guard Members
Appointed to the key post of interior minister was Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is on the FBI’s most-wanted list with a $5 million bounty on his head and is believed to still be holding at least one American hostage.
Logically→ Taliban fighters jumping on a trampoline as they celebrate their return to power in Afghanistan.
The alleged video of Taliban forces bouncing on a trampoline has been circulating since 2020, and it was not captured after the Afghanistan takeover.
Snopes→ Taliban Say They Took Panjshir, Last Holdout Afghan Province
The anti-Taliban forces had been led by the former vice president, Amrullah Saleh, and also the son of the iconic anti-Taliban fighter Ahmad Shah Massoud.
FactCheck.org→ Republicans Inflate Cost of Taliban-Seized U.S. Military Equipment
The Taliban seized an arsenal of U.S.-made military equipment when it overran the Afghan army, but not nearly as much as numerous Republicans have claimed. Several Republican members of Congress and former President Donald Trump have cited a grossly ex
Truth or Fiction?→ Taliban ‘Hanging from Blackhawk’ Video
On August 30 2021, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted a video that purportedly showed members of the Taliban hanging an interpreter from a Blackhawk helicopter in Afghanistan: This horrifying image encapsulates Joe Biden's Afghanistan catastrophe:
Logically→ Taliban hanged a person from a helicopter in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The Taliban did not hang the man; instead, he was suspended from a helicopter in Kandahar to raise the Islamist militants' flag above a building.
Snopes→ Did Taliban Hang a Man From a Black Hawk Helicopter?
This person is hanging from a harness, not a neck.
Snopes→ Did US Leave More Than $80B Worth of Equipment to the Taliban?
The "Taliban's New Arsenal" does not include 22,000 Humvees or 33 Black Hawk helicopters.
Washington Post→ No, the Taliban did not seize $83 billion of U.S. weapons
Former president Donald Trump and right-leaning social media accounts keep wrongly claiming that the Taliban seized more than $80 billion in U.S. military equipment.
The Dispatch→ Are the Taliban and the Haqqani Network ‘Separate Entities’?
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Logically→ A viral video shows Taliban militants auctioning women for $1.34.
An old video from a London street play to raise concerns about crimes against women has been falsely claimed as the Taliban auctioning Afghan women.
Logically→ A CNN reporter covered her head while reporting after the Taliban took control over Afghanistan.
Clarissa Ward clarified that she always wore a headscarf while reporting in Kabul, but she wore an abaya for the first time while reporting lately.
Logically→ A video shows Ashraf Ghani fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban takes control of the country.
An older footage of the Afghanistan president boarding a plane is falsely captioned that it depicted him fleeing the country on August 15.
Logically→ A photo shows a Taliban fighter holding a group of women and children against a wall outside Kabul airport.
The image of people waiting outside Kabul airport was taken out of context and shared with false headline.
Logically→ A video shows the Taliban celebrating the takeover of Maidan in Afghanistan.
The video showing men dancing with guns is from a wedding in Pakistan held in 2020.
Logically→ A video shows Taliban militants shooting a woman dead in Afghanistan for stepping out of her house.
A 2015 video from Syria is falsely captioned as Taliban militants shooting a woman dead in Afghanistan in 2021.
Logically→ A video purportedly shows the Taliban in control of the presidential palace in Kabul.
An old video of Syrian rebels capturing the city of Idlib in March 2015 is falsely claimed to be of the current situation in Afghanistan.