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Afghanistan

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All Fact-checks for Afghanistan

Sam Brown
Sam Brown
stated on August 15, 2024 an X post:
Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen said the Biden administration did a "tremendous job" on the U.S. military’s Afghanistan withdrawal.
Mostly False
By Seth A. Richardson • September 26, 2024
Brigitte Gabriel
Brigitte Gabriel
stated on July 2, 2024 an Instagram post:
"For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.”
False
By Jeff Cercone • July 5, 2024
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 8, 2023 a Facebook post:
Video shows an “inflatable decoy plane” at the Kabul airport in 2021.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 13, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 26, 2023 a video:
The amount the U.S. has spent in Ukraine is “double the U.S. expenditure for its own war in Afghanistan.”
False
By Jeff Cercone • January 27, 2023
Tom Tiffany
Tom Tiffany
stated on December 8, 2022 Twitter:
“Joe Biden left Marines behind in Afghanistan. And now he left a Marine behind in Russia.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • January 6, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 16, 2022 a speech:
Says he has been to “Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas” twice as president.
False
By Tom Kertscher • December 20, 2022
Zach Nunn
Zach Nunn
stated on May 9, 2022 a campaign ad:
“Zack Nunn saved over 2,000 Americans abandoned in Afghanistan by leading private rescue missions.”
Half-True
By Lyle Muller • May 27, 2022
Tom Tiffany
Tom Tiffany
stated on February 18, 2022 Twitter:
The Biden administration has been "recklessly releasing potentially dangerous Afghans into our communities."
Mostly False
By Alan Hovorka • May 13, 2022
Derrick Van Orden
Derrick Van Orden
stated on December 7, 2021 Twitter:
Actions by Joe Biden left "10,000 to 15,000 American citizens abandoned to terrorists in Afghanistan."
Mostly False
By Alan Hovorka • January 4, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 12, 2021 an interview with Rita Braver of CBS:
“I’ve been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 27, 2021 social media posts:
President Joe Biden withdrew troops from Afghanistan “simply because of Trump Derangement Syndrome and they wanted to reverse any policy that Trump had implemented.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2021
Patrick Testin
Patrick Testin
stated on August 29, 2021 TV interview:
"The vast majority of the (refugees) coming into Fort McCoy are not the SIVs" and some have "no documentation at all."
Mostly True
By Alan Hovorka • October 13, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 1, 2021 Facebook posts:
News cameras “shut off” just as Biden was asked if he gave the Taliban a “hit list” of evacuating American and Afghan officials.
False
By Noah Y. Kim • September 28, 2021
Richard Ojeda
Richard Ojeda
stated on August 15, 2021 a tweet:
The United States spent “2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week.”
Half-True
By Trenton Straight, Zach DeLuca • September 21, 2021
Richard Hudson
Richard Hudson
stated on September 1, 2021 a Facebook post:
Says U.S. left 33 Black Hawks to the Taliban, which has more than “85%” of all countries.
Half-True
By Paul Specht • September 20, 2021
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on September 3, 2021 an interview with WSYR-TV:
“All” Americans in Afghanistan who “have wanted to come out have come out.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2021
The Gateway Pundit
The Gateway Pundit
stated on August 27, 2021 a Facebook post:
U.S. veteran group rescued Afghan allies “behind Biden’s back.”
False
By Tom Kertscher • September 1, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 29, 2021 a Facebook post:
The U.S. left the Taliban an “arsenal” in Afghanistan, including 358,530 assault rifles and 22,174 Humvees.
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • September 1, 2021
X posts
X posts
stated on August 30, 2021 tweets:
A video shows the “Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • August 31, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 27, 2021 a Facebook post:
Photos show the U.S. service members killed in a 2021 suicide bombing in Kabul.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 31, 2021
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Latest promises about Afghanistan

Joe Biden
Joe Biden
End wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East
An end to the Afghanistan War, but continued fighting against Iranian proxies | March 19, 2024
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Train and equip the Afghan army
Afghan forces take the lead but still need U.S. help | December 8, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
End the war in Afghanistan in 2014
Obama increases U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan past 2016 | July 6, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Work to end NATO restrictions on forces in Afghanistan
U.S. had some success in curbing restrictions, but point is mostly moot now | January 14, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Increase non-military aid to Afghanistan by $1 billion
Administration meets goal of boosting non-military funding in Afghanistan | May 15, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war
Money in budgets, but supplementals aren’t going away | September 16, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan
Obama goes beyond his campaign pledge, sending more troops to Afghanistan | January 21, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
Pakistan aid package comes with strings | October 19, 2009
Latest promises about Afghanistan