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War & conflict fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about war & conflict. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

5,821 published reviews in this topic

Deutsche WelleWar & conflict

In this post on X, a user claims that Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran's recently assassinated supreme leader, was also killed in US strikes in Tehran. The post has 2.6 million views at the time of writing.

Publisher’s rating: Unproven

DW said there was no evidence Mojtaba Khamenei had been killed and no formal statement of his death from the US, Israel, or Iran. It noted that Israel’s defense minister had called any successor to Ali Khamenei an “unequivocal target for elimination.”

FactCrescendo Sri LankaWar & conflict

The video shows an Iranian military general confessing that he betrayed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before dying by suicide during a live broadcast.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review says the claim is unsupported and the footage is unrelated to an Iranian military official. It traces the same video to a 2024 post identifying the man as Zahir Amini, a Kurdish resident, and describing his death by suicide during an Instagram livestream.

Deutsche WelleWar & conflict

Sharing a video in a post on X with 2.9 million views at the time of writing, one user claims that it shows the capital of Iran: Teheran. He states that the "US began dropping 2,000-pound bombs" on March 4 and that the administration "still says this is not a war."

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The video does show bombing in Tehran, but it was originally shared on March 1, so it cannot show events on March 4. The review says the footage does not establish whether 2,000-pound bombs were dropped on Tehran; it also notes that the administration had not formally declared war, although Trump called the actions “major combat operations.”

FACTLYWar & conflict

Live Visuals of Iran’s attack on Isreal in March 2026.

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

FACTLY reports that the video shows Algerian football fans celebrating with fireworks in Algiers in 2020, not Iran’s attack on Israel in March 2026. The review says it geolocated the scene to the area around Place Al Mokrani in Algiers.

Deutsche WelleWar & conflict

"The video currently being circulated under the name‚ missile attack on Minab elementary school' pertains to an attack in Peshawar, Pakistan, and has no connection to Minab," says the translation of a viral post on X. The post includes a video showing crowds gathered in front of a destroyed building.

Publisher’s rating: False

The review says the circulating footage is authentic and does not depict an attack in Peshawar. It reports that a girls’ school in Minab was hit on February 28 during US and Israeli missile strikes on Iran.