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War & conflict fact checks

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

5,848 published reviews in this topic

FactCheck.orgWar & conflict

"You know, we call it a safe zone. But it was anything but a safe zone. Turkey has lost thousands and thousands of people from that safe zone."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Photos of an apartment building in Kyiv are evidence the war in Ukraine “is fake.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactWar & conflict

The war in Ukraine is “scripted and staged.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactWar & conflict

A video taken from a car driving through Bucha, Ukraine, shows a corpse “moving his arm,” and then “in the rear view mirror the ‘corpse’ sits down.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgWar & conflict

“Putin has ordered his military to seek and destroy US-Deep State bio-labs" in Ukraine.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

"Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden administration.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Washington PostWar & conflict

"After years of devastating budget cuts and a military that was totally depleted from these endless wars, we have invested over 2 trillion — trillion, that’s with a T — dollars in the most powerful fighting force, by far, on the planet Earth."

Publisher’s rating: Three Pinocchios

PolitiFactWar & conflict

“UN troops to be deployed across U.S. as Pentagon prepares for ‘civil unrest.’”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Photos show Gaza on Oct. 27.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Video shows “second night of missiles attacks against Israel.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgWar & conflict

A meme claims that CNN anchor Don Lemon referred to the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as the killing of an "unarmed father of three.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgWar & conflict

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri died from asthma in 2020.

Publisher’s rating: Unsupported

PolitiFactWar & conflict

In 1988, in response to Iran’s attack on the U.S.S. Samuel Roberts, President Ronald Reagan "destroyed half of Iran’s Navy."

Publisher’s rating: True

FactCheck.orgWar & conflict

The Capitol riot on Jan. 6 was “a terror attack” that resulted in “almost 10 dead.”

Publisher’s rating: We Explain Her Tally

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Video shows Russia attacking Israel in October 2023.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Video shows footage of recent violence in Israel.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Classified documents from Ukraine “confirm without a shadow of a doubt” that the Ukraine government was “covertly preparing an offensive operation against Donbas, scheduled for March 2022.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgWar & conflict

The amount the U.S. has spent in Ukraine is "double the U.S. expenditure for its own war in Afghanistan."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgWar & conflict

CNN report is “Obviously fake footage about the Ukrainian ‘war’."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

“Russia has never attacked anyone throughout its history.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire