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President Trump has repeatedly claimed since mid‑2025 that he has “ended” between six and eight wars; independent fact‑checks and major news outlets say those claims are misleading because some disput...
Former President Barack Obama ordered multiple military strikes and sustained air campaigns without new, specific congressional authorizations — notably interventions in Libya and expanded airstrikes ...
Estimates of civilian deaths from Obama-era drone strikes vary widely: some activists and researchers say “at least hundreds” were killed , while activist groups argue U.S. government tallies—cited as...
President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed he “ended” between six and eight wars since returning to the White House in 2025; reporting and fact‑checks list the eight conflicts he cites as Cambodia–...
Most mainstream analysts judge the chance of a global, multi‑continent “World War III” erupting in 2025–2026 as real enough to monitor closely but not inevitable, with several reputable commentaries a...
The Obama administration carried out targeted strikes that killed at least one U.S. citizen — Anwar al‑Awlaki — and struck again days later in Yemen that killed his 16‑year‑old son Abdulrahman, also a...
President Trump has repeatedly said he “ended eight wars,” a tally that various outlets have traced to a roster of ceasefires, ceasefire-brokers and diplomatic interventions that his White House has c...
The Trump administration repeatedly asserted it had “ended eight wars,” a claim widely reported and repeatedly fact-checked as exaggerated; press outlets document that he cited a mix of ceasefires, di...
Official reports and contemporaneous media say at least four physical passports linked to hijackers were recovered after 9/11: one was reportedly found on the street near the World Trade Center, anoth...
Barack Obama’s administration developed a formal, internal framework (the Presidential Policy Guidance, PPG) that imposed specific constraints—such as geographic limits, a “near-certainty” standard to...
Available reporting in the provided set shows disagreement about who “bombed more countries” and focuses on different metrics—number of bombs dropped, countries struck, and transparency. Some outlets ...
Available reporting shows the Obama administration conducted U.S. airstrikes and drone strikes across at least seven countries, with the most-cited list including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia...
Public tallies of U.S. “drone strikes” from 2009 onward vary by compiler and by what operations they include: the U.S. DNI reported 473 strikes from Jan 20, 2009–Dec 31, 2015 and an additional 53 stri...
Sources differ but cluster around roughly 1,800–1,900 total U.S. “drone strikes” during Barack Obama’s eight years: the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s compiled figure cited by BBC is 1,878 strik...
Barack Obama authorized large numbers of air and drone strikes overseas without seeking a new, specific Act of Congress; his administration relied on earlier congressional authorizations—most prominen...
Estimates of deaths tied to the Afghanistan wars since 2001 vary widely by category and source: Brown University’s Costs of War project counts more than 940,000 direct deaths across five post‑9/11 the...
The Obama administration expanded and oversaw hundreds of drone and airstrike operations in Pakistan and elsewhere; multiple reputable trackers put U.S. strikes in Pakistan and neighboring areas at hu...
Estimates of casualties from drone strikes ordered during Barack Obama’s presidency vary widely: independent trackers put total strikes in the 400–563 range and civilian deaths from hundreds to roughl...
Barack Obama inherited two large-scale U.S. wars (Iraq and Afghanistan) and during his presidency the United States was engaged militarily in at least five overseas conflicts — Afghanistan, Iraq (incl...
President Trump has repeatedly claimed he has “ended” eight wars; independent reporting and fact-checks find this . Major outlets have documented that some conflicts saw pauses, negotiations, or reduc...