“Image showing IAF airlifting 800 people from Kabul amid recent tensions in Afghanistan”
What FACTLY found
This image is related to 2013 US Airforce’s operation Damayan to evacuate residents of the Tacloban city in Philippines following a super typhoon Haiyan. Recently, the US Airforce’s C-17 cargo jet airlifted hundreds of evacuees from Hamid Karzai International Airport and this news is falsely attributed to IAF’s C-17 cargo. According to news reports Indian Air force’s C-17 aircraft returned to Delhi from Kabul with more than 100 Indian evacuees
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 16 August 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 17 August 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
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