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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

Washington PostWar & conflict

“You remember they [Iran] fired. They hit one of our drones and I hit them. …. They called us to tell us that we’re going to hit back. Here’s the target, but we’re not going to hit the target. We’re going to just miss it."

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

PolitiFactWar & conflict

A Ukrainian combat medic who died in February was seen in a video Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted of his visit to see wounded soldiers.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Says a video shows Iranian rockets being launched toward a U.S. air base in Iraq.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

A 2022 CNN report said, “Russia deploys two nuke bombers in US backyard, Venezuela.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

The Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, had “the makings of yet another false flag operation” led by the U.S.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

FactCheck.orgWar & conflict

“There wasn’t a SINGLE American casualty in Afghanistan in the last year and a half of the Trump admin."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Referring to the Iraq War, "immediately, the moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

"As the Taliban's gaining ground, Biden's team of incompetence killed the Trump-era program to oversee the evacuation of Americans from crisis zones around the world."

Publisher’s rating: Program wasn't fully running

PolitiFactWar & conflict

"Iran will be shooting at our soldiers with bullets, etc., purchased with the $150 billion Obama gave them."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

فکت‌نامهWar & conflict

ماریا اسکندری خلبان جنگنده F16 ارتش اسرائیل و اصالتا ایرانی است.

Publisher’s rating: شاخ‌دار

PolitiFactWar & conflict

“Soldiers destroyed Russian tank with NLAW in ambush.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

"Barack Obama put a permanent stop on this military aid to the Ukraine - he never allowed it to go."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Video shows Palestinians faking a funeral procession for a child.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Video muestra "muñeco de niño palestino hecho en Israel”.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

The chaos at the Kabul airport as the Taliban took over Afghanistan’s capital was a “false flag event to provoke WW3.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactWar & conflict

"I said 13 years ago it was a mistake to give the president the authority to go to war if, in fact, he couldn’t get inspectors in Iraq to stop what was thought to be the attempt to get a nuclear weapon. It was a mistake, and I acknowledge that."

Publisher’s rating: Opposed war after start

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Video shows “Israeli Air Force…striking terror targets in Gaza” in October.

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgWar & conflict

President Joe Biden is “funding every angle of this conflict” between Hamas and Israel.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

PolitiFactWar & conflict

The Biden administration “gifted the Taliban with $80 billion-plus” in military-grade weapons but now “wants your 9mm pistols.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactWar & conflict

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, “not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview Putin.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire