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Snopes→ No, 229 Christian Missionaries Were Not Sentenced to Death in Afghanistan
In the midst of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, a bogus, 12-year-old prayer chain about imperiled missionaries was revived on social media.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Of A Woman’s Execution Did NOT Just Happen In Afghanistan — It Was In Syria In 2015
Does this video show a Taliban killing in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021? No, that's not true: This footage of the public execution of a woman accused of adultery was identified in 2015 as having been carried out by Nusra Front jihadis
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Prayer Request For 229 Christian Missionaries Is NOT Based On A Verified Current Event
Have 229 Christian missionaries been sentenced to death "tomorrow afternoon" by "Afghan Islamists"? No, that's not true: Variations of this specific prayer request have been circulating since at least 2009 with some changes and various de
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Digital Billboard In Wilmington, NC, Was NOT Hacked To Show Unflattering Memes Of Biden — The Memes Came From A ‘Private Citizen’
Was a digital billboard in Wilmington, North Carolina, hacked to feature memes that were critical of President Joe Biden? No, that's not true: According to Donald Tedder, owner of the digital billboard, the billboard was not hacked -- the
AllSides→ Biden’s bogus claim that Afghanistan’s military was larger than ‘many of our NATO allies’
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Logically→ When President Biden took office, U.S. forces had already drawn down from roughly 15,500 American forces to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.
Under the agreement signed between the Trump administration and the Taliban a large portion of the troops had left the country by early 2021.
Logically→ The U.S. trained and equipped an Afghan military force of some 300,000 strong.
There is no consensus on the size of the Afghan military force.On 16 August, President Joe Biden made a speech in the light of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the chaos that Afghanistan has plunged into since. He said, "We spent ov
Poynter→ Fake news accounts are spreading false information about journalists executed in Afghanistan
Several Twitter accounts that look like they belong to some well-known news networks recently shared that a journalist had been captured and killed by the Taliban in Kabul. But these accounts weren’t authentic and they’ve since been suspended. R
FactCheck.org→ Timeline of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The blame game has begun over who lost Afghanistan. The fact is, President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, were both eager to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and end what Biden referred to in his Aug. 16 speech as “America̵
Truth or Fiction?→ Flight Out of Afghanistan
Just before 5PM on August 16 2021, high-profile Facebook accounts shared an image labeled as a “flight out of Afghanistan”; the same image had been shared to Reddit’s r/pics two hours prior: One of the flights out of Kabul.
Snopes→ Fake ‘Afghan News’ Accounts Spread Racist Misinformation About ‘Missing Reporter’
Peddlers of misinformation attempted to sow confusion in the wake of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.
Snopes→ Biden’s Teleprompter Did Not Say ‘Leave Now’ at End of Afghanistan Speech
A doctored picture was shared in the moments after U.S. President Joe Biden gave a speech on the Taliban's efforts to take over in Afghanistan.
Full Fact→ French ambassador hasn’t left Kabul as Robert Peston claims
As the Taliban advanced towards Kabul on Sunday, 15 August, the French ambassador in Afghanistan David Martinon tweeted a video of him in what appears to be a helicopter saying he was leaving the Afghan capital’s former “green zone”.
Truth or Fiction?→ Did a Republican Party Webpage Praising Trump’s Afghanistan Deal Disappear?
As right-wing political figures scrambled to attack U.S. President Joe Biden for the devastation accompanying the Taliban advance across Afghanistan in August 2021, an official Republican Party webpage praising his predecessor for setting up the United
Truth or Fiction?→ U.S. Military Dogs Being Evacuated From Afghanistan
On August 16 2021, CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand shared an image on Twitter which puportedly showed dogs with the United States military dogs as they were getting moved out of Afghanistan as its cities rapidly fell to the Taliban: U.S. military dogs
Logically→ Autonomous armed groups still operate in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
There are some armed groups that operate in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. One of them is identified as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘U.S. Quietly Slips Out Of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night’ Onion Story
On July 6 2021, Twitter user @SIGSYS published two screenshots, one a satirical headline from The Onion in July 2011 about the United States having “quietly slip[ped] out of Afghanistan in [the] dead of night,” and a July 2021 Associated
Snopes→ US Hands Bagram Airfield to Afghans After Nearly 20 Years
Bagram Airfield was the epicenter of the U.S. war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney And Maria Zack Video Shows NO Proof Of Election Fraud
Did a video featuring Lt. General Tom McInerney and Maria Zack show proof of election fraud? No, that's not true. The retired general and the Nations in Action website founder repeated previously debunked claims about election fraud in th
AFP Fact Check→ This clip actually shows computer-generated imagery from a video game
A video has been viewed millions of times in Facebook posts purporting to show a US military plane being shot down by Taliban militants in Afghanistan. The claim is false; the clip actually shows computer-generated imagery from a war video game called
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: This K-9 Handler Did NOT Prevent Naval Air Station Terrorism Attack
Did this U.S. Navy K-9 handler help prevent a terrorism-related attack on Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas? No, that's not true: Although a female sailor did help stop the May 21, 2020, attack, that sailor was not a K-9 handler a
FactCheck.org→ Twisting the Facts on ‘Dirty Money’ in the Georgia Race
Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff’s production company received payments from a Hong Kong media company and Al Jazeera for the rights to air investigative pieces, but a Republican TV ad misleadingly claims Ossoff got cash from “
FactCheck.org→ Conspiracy Theory Baselessly Claims Biden Had Navy SEALs Killed
Quick Take A viral conspiracy theory spread across social media baselessly claims former Vice President Joe Biden “had SEAL Team 6 killed” as part of a cover-up after a purportedly failed assassination of Osama bin Laden. President Donald T
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Joe Biden Did NOT Leak The Identities Of SEAL Team 6 Members
Did Joe Biden leak the identities of SEAL Team 6 members? No, that's not true: Though he publicly praised the SEALs for the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, he did not identify members of the elite unit by name. The claim a
FactCheck.org→ Trump’s Baseless Attacks on Times, Post Reporting on Russia Probe
President Donald Trump has attacked reporting on the Russia investigation by the New York Times and the Washington Post as “fake news,” asserting — along with his press secretary — that the news organizations should return
Snopes→ White House Aware of Russian Bounties in 2019
Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported.
Snopes→ Trump Denies Briefing on Reported Bounties Against US Troops
President Donald Trump denied that he had been briefed on reported U.S. intelligence that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Helicopter Crash That Killed 30 U.S. Service Members Did NOT Happen ‘Yesterday’
Was a U.S. military helicopter shot down on June 4, 2020, over Afghanistan, with the crash killing 30 members of a Navy SEAL team? No, the crash in question happened nine years before, in 2011. The crash did kill 30 service members, 22 of them
Snopes→ Officials: Blast at Afghan Mosque Kills 62 During Prayers
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but both the Taliban and the Islamic State group are active in eastern Afghanistan, especially Nangarhar province.
FactCheck.org→ Falsehood Swirls About Biden, SEALs
Quick Take Viral posts on Facebook claim, falsely, that former Vice President Joe Biden “leaked the names of SEAL Team 6 family’s to Al Qaeda.” Biden publicly credited the SEALs with killing Osama Bin Laden, but did not disclose the
Truth or Fiction?→ Did Joe Biden Disclose the Names of the Soldiers Involved in the Bin Laden Raid in 2011?
On April 30 2019, the following post was shared to the Facebook group “Sussex County Voice” (archived here), alleging that when he was vice president of the United States, Joe Biden revealed the names and unit responsible for killing Osam
Snopes→ US Steps Up Winter-Warfare Training as Global Threat Shifts
After 17 years of war against Taliban and al-Qaida-linked insurgents, the military is shifting its focus to better prepare for great-power competition with Russia and China, and against unpredictable foes such as North Korea and Iran.
FactCheck.org→ No Trump-Ordered ‘Raid’ on Muslim Community
Q: Did President Trump order a raid on Islamberg, New York, that uncovered weapons? A: No. A false story from 2017 links the Muslim community to an unrelated arrest of a man on weapons charges. FULL ANSWER The Muslim settlement of Islamberg in upstat
Truth or Fiction?→ Prayer Request for 30 Navy SEALs Shot Down in Helicopter-Outdated!
Prayer Request for 30 Navy Seals Shot Down in Helicopter-Outdated! Summary of eRumor: Prayer requests for 30 Navy Seals, including members of SEAL Team 6, circulated on Facebook in September 2017. The Truth: Thirty Americans, including 15 members of th
PolitiFact→ Donald Trump's Afghanistan address, fact-checked
President Donald Trump suggested further and stronger military action in Afghanistan during a primetime speech Monday, though he did not specify the number of additional troops who would be sent to the country. "Our troops will fight to win. We wi
Snopes→ Activist Malala Yousafzai Accepted to Study at the University of Oxford
The 20-year-old was shot by the Taliban at the age of 15 for agitating for the right to an education
FactCheck.org→ Spicer Digs Hole Deeper on Gitmo
While correcting President Donald Trump’s tweet about Guantanamo Bay detainees who have returned to the battlefield, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer incorrectly claimed that in contrast to the detainees transferred or released by the Obam
FactCheck.org→ Trump Official’s Misplaced Gitmo Blame
Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, botched two facts when speaking on Fox News about a released Guantanamo Bay detainee responsible for a recent suicide bombing in Iraq: First, Gorka wrongly suggested the man was released b