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Taliban

Islamist organization in Afghanistan (founded 1994)

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Dec 10, 2025
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did trump send money to the taliban?

News reports allege the Trump administration sent "tens of millions" of dollars — often cited as $45 million — in cash to Afghanistan that critics say reached the Taliban through Afghanistan’s banking...

Nov 7, 2025
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What specific racist comments has nick fuentes made?

Nick Fuentes has repeatedly made explicitly racist, antisemitic, and white-supremacist statements over many years; documented comments include praise for Adolf Hitler, Holocaust denial or minimization...

Dec 7, 2025
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Did Obama seek Congressional authorization for drone strikes during his presidency?

President Obama did not routinely seek new, specific congressional authorizations for the wide-ranging drone and airstrike campaigns of his presidency; his administration primarily relied on the post‑...

Dec 16, 2025

HOW MANY ISLAMIST TERRORIST ATTACKS HAVE THERE BEEN

There is no single, authoritative count of “how many Islamist terrorist attacks have there been” in the sources provided; databases and analyses count attacks differently and focus on specific years, ...

Dec 12, 2025

Estimated deaths in Afghanistan wars since 2001 attributed to whom?

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...

Dec 1, 2025

Trump invited the leadership of the Taliban to the White House and to camp David on the anniversary of 9/11

President Donald Trump did announce that he planned to host senior Taliban leaders at Camp David and in Washington in September 2019, then abruptly cancelled those meetings after a Taliban attack; con...

Oct 8, 2025

Historically what book titles did hitler burn

The primary verifiable claim across the provided material is that Nazi students staged a large public book burning in Berlin on May 10, 1933, destroying approximately 20,000 volumes labeled “un-German...

Oct 11, 2025

What were the criticisms of Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win from international media outlets in 2009?

Barack Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize provoked immediate international debate, with critics arguing the award was , rewarded symbolic promise over concrete achievement, and conflicted with active U.S....

Dec 4, 2025

Did the U.S. under Trump negotiate a withdrawal or peace deal with the Taliban?

The Trump administration negotiated and signed the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan — commonly called the U.S.–Taliban or Doha deal — on February 29, 2020; it set a 14-month, conditions-bas...

Dec 15, 2025

did trump give afganastan 45 billion dollars

Available reporting shows no verified evidence that the Trump administration directly flew $45 billion — or $45 million on Dec. 8, 2025 — in cash to the Taliban; fact-checkers and news outlets trace c...

Dec 8, 2025

Obama bombing the middle east

Barack Obama presided over a major expansion of U.S. air campaigns: reporting by the Council on Foreign Relations and other analysts says the United States dropped at least 26,171 bombs in 2016 across...

Dec 10, 2025

Did Trump Send millions to Taliban

Available reporting shows a viral claim that the U.S. sent “$45 million in cash to the Taliban” on December 8, 2025 is false: fact-checkers say the photo used to promote the claim dated to 2023 and th...

Dec 10, 2025

Did Donald Trump or his administration authorize payments that benefited the Taliban?

Reporting shows claims that the Trump administration directly authorized fresh cash payments to the Taliban are disputed and often based on inaccurate or reused imagery; fact-checkers say a viral clai...

Dec 7, 2025

How did Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal plan differ from the Trump administration's conditions-based approach?

President Biden executed a time-bound withdrawal from Afghanistan: he set a May–September 2021 timetable and completed the pullout by the end of August 2021 rather than waiting for specific battlefiel...

Dec 2, 2025

did omar say death to america

Available reporting does not show Rep. Ilhan Omar publicly chanting or saying the phrase “Death to America.” Multiple sources show longstanding controversies over her rhetoric on U.S. policy, accusati...

Oct 1, 2025

Does Sharia Law protect women

Sharia as implemented varies widely: contemporary state and non-state applications often restrict women's rights and freedoms in visible ways, while reformist Muslim voices argue that alternative, rig...

Nov 18, 2025

most deadly non islamic terrorist attacks

The deadliest single-day terrorist attack since 1970 remains the September 11, 2001 strikes that killed about 2,990 people, and the largest recent mass-casualty Islamist events include October 7, 2023...

Dec 5, 2025

Which countries experienced U.S. drone strikes under Obama and what were the stated objectives in each case?

The Obama administration carried out the vast majority of its acknowledged drone and airstrike campaign in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, with reporting groups counting roughly 540–570 strikes in those ...

Nov 15, 2025

Did the Obama administration's drone strike policy comply with international humanitarian law?

The record shows sharp disagreement: human-rights groups, UN experts and some academics say Obama-era drone practices raised serious doubts about compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL), ...

Nov 13, 2025

What were the most devastating Islamic terror attacks worldwide since 2001?

Since 2001, the single most devastating Islamist terrorist strike in global human terms remains the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States, which killed roughly and triggered long‑term geopoli...