Afghanistan Scorecard true 0% 17 Checks mostly-true 0% 15 Checks Half True 0% 17 Checks mostly-false 0% 13 Checks false 0% 38 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 9 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Afghanistan Sam Brown stated on August 15, 2024 in an X post: Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen said the Biden administration did a "tremendous job" on the U.S. military’s Afghanistan withdrawal. By Seth A. Richardson • September 26, 2024 Brigitte Gabriel stated on July 2, 2024 in an Instagram post: "For 18 months under President Trump, not a single American was harmed in Afghanistan.” July 5, 2024 Viral image stated on October 8, 2023 in a Facebook post: Video shows an “inflatable decoy plane” at the Kabul airport in 2021. October 13, 2023 Instagram posts stated on January 26, 2023 in a video: The amount the U.S. has spent in Ukraine is “double the U.S. expenditure for its own war in Afghanistan.” January 27, 2023 Tom Tiffany stated on December 8, 2022 in Twitter: “Joe Biden left Marines behind in Afghanistan. And now he left a Marine behind in Russia.” By Laura Schulte • January 6, 2023 Joe Biden stated on December 16, 2022 in a speech: Says he has been to “Afghanistan, Iraq and those areas” twice as president. December 20, 2022 Zach Nunn stated on May 9, 2022 in a campaign ad: “Zack Nunn saved over 2,000 Americans abandoned in Afghanistan by leading private rescue missions.” By Lyle Muller • May 27, 2022 Tom Tiffany stated on February 18, 2022 in Twitter: The Biden administration has been "recklessly releasing potentially dangerous Afghans into our communities." By Alan Hovorka • May 13, 2022 Derrick Van Orden stated on December 7, 2021 in Twitter: Actions by Joe Biden left "10,000 to 15,000 American citizens abandoned to terrorists in Afghanistan." By Alan Hovorka • January 4, 2022 Joe Biden stated on December 12, 2021 in an interview with Rita Braver of CBS: “I’ve been against that war in Afghanistan from the very beginning.” By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2021 Facebook posts stated on October 27, 2021 in 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.” By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2021 Patrick Testin stated on August 29, 2021 in TV interview: "The vast majority of the (refugees) coming into Fort McCoy are not the SIVs" and some have "no documentation at all." By Alan Hovorka • October 13, 2021 Facebook posts stated on September 1, 2021 in 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. September 28, 2021 Richard Ojeda stated on August 15, 2021 in 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.” By Trenton Straight, Zach DeLuca • September 21, 2021 Richard Hudson stated on September 1, 2021 in a Facebook post: Says U.S. left 33 Black Hawks to the Taliban, which has more than “85%” of all countries. By Paul Specht • September 20, 2021 Charles Schumer stated on September 3, 2021 in an interview with WSYR-TV: “All” Americans in Afghanistan who “have wanted to come out have come out.” By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2021 The Gateway Pundit stated on August 27, 2021 in a Facebook post: U.S. veteran group rescued Afghan allies “behind Biden’s back.” September 1, 2021 Viral image stated on August 29, 2021 in a Facebook post: The U.S. left the Taliban an “arsenal” in Afghanistan, including 358,530 assault rifles and 22,174 Humvees. September 1, 2021 X posts stated on August 30, 2021 in tweets: A video shows the “Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter.” By Bill McCarthy • August 31, 2021 Viral image stated on August 27, 2021 in a Facebook post: Photos show the U.S. service members killed in a 2021 suicide bombing in Kabul. August 31, 2021 Load More Latest Articles Families of fallen US service members’ emotional moment at RNC, accusations against Joe Biden By Samantha Putterman • July 18, 2024 Americans on their own in Ukraine? Military-led evacuations like in Afghanistan are not the norm • January 31, 2022 Mailbag: ‘PolitiFact, you’re wrong’ and other reader reactions By Amy Sherman • September 7, 2021 Weapons, helicopters and K9s: Debunking misinformation about the end of the war in Afghanistan By Samantha Putterman • September 3, 2021 Joe Biden said not everyone who wants to can leave after a war. Military experts checked his history By Louis Jacobson • September 2, 2021 Crated dogs in Kabul airport photo didn’t belong to US military. What’s going on? By Samantha Putterman • September 2, 2021 What we know about today’s Taliban By Jon Greenberg • September 1, 2021 How are Afghan refugees being vetted? Here’s what we know By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • August 25, 2021 What was the Contingency and Crisis Response bureau? Examining the Trump-era proposal By Bill McCarthy • August 25, 2021 Ask PolitiFact: What are some basic facts on the U.S. war in Afghanistan? By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • August 19, 2021 Vietnam and Afghanistan: Different wars, similar endings? By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2021 Latest promises about Afghanistan 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 End the war in Afghanistan in 2014 Obama increases U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan past 2016 | July 6, 2016 Barack Obama End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war Money in budgets, but supplementals aren’t going away | September 16, 2010 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 Train and equip the Afghan army Afghan forces take the lead but still need U.S. help | December 8, 2016 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 Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts Pakistan aid package comes with strings | October 19, 2009 Barack Obama Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan Obama goes beyond his campaign pledge, sending more troops to Afghanistan | January 21, 2010 Latest promises about Afghanistan
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 End the war in Afghanistan in 2014 Obama increases U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan past 2016 | July 6, 2016
Barack Obama End the abuse of supplemental budgets for war Money in budgets, but supplementals aren’t going away | September 16, 2010
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 Train and equip the Afghan army Afghan forces take the lead but still need U.S. help | December 8, 2016
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 Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts Pakistan aid package comes with strings | October 19, 2009
Barack Obama Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan Obama goes beyond his campaign pledge, sending more troops to Afghanistan | January 21, 2010
