“Al-Qaida is “gone” from Afghanistan.”
Joe Biden
President. Claim dated 20 Aug 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
A U.N. report in June said that al-Qaida is present in at least 15 Afghan provinces in the range of several dozen to 500 persons.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 20 August 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 August 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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