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The claim

"More than $2 trillion spent in Afghanistan... [or] you could take the number of $1tn, as many say"

Original publisher’s rating

The lower figure reflects the official total, while the $2bn figure comes from a Brown University study.

Reviewed by BBC Reality Check ↗ ·

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Sources and attribution

    Original review: BBC Reality Check. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms.

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