{"id":666685,"date":"2021-08-20T18:35:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T22:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=666685"},"modified":"2021-08-20T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T22:35:23","slug":"fact-check-no-this-video-does-not-show-the-people-of-kabul-welcoming-the-taliban-into-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-video-does-not-show-the-people-of-kabul-welcoming-the-taliban-into-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Video Does Not Show The People Of Kabul Welcoming The Taliban Into The City"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-this-video-does-not-show-the-people-of-kabul-welcoming-the-taliban-into-the-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=666685&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Kandahar-scaled-e1629404875832.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100009406917031\/videos\/214251603872457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show a video of the people of Kabul,&nbsp;Afghanistan, welcoming the Taliban into the city.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video was filmed in the Afghan city of Kandahar, not Kabul.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, was taken over by the Taliban on Aug. 15, prompting former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to flee the country, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/15\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-surrender.html\">The New York Times<\/a>. A video shared widely on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100009406917031\/videos\/214251603872457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SyedSajidBukh16\/status\/1426757461965426688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> claims to show the people of Kabul welcoming the Taliban into the city.<\/p>\n<p>In the short video, hundreds of people can be heard shouting in the streets adjacent to a large stone gate. The Facebook post\u2019s caption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100009406917031\/videos\/214251603872457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reads<\/a> in part, \u201cThe people of Kabul come out from their houses for the welcome of Taliban and gathered on the entry gate of Kabul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video, however, was actually taken in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. The large gate visible in the footage matches the one in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.ie\/detail\/news-photo\/taliban-fighters-stand-on-a-vehicle-along-the-roadside-in-news-photo\/1234649649?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo<\/a> available through Getty Images and in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/video\/watch\/idOVEQ9BIO1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> published by Reuters, both of which stated the location is Kandahar. Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/flag-hoisted-kandahar-city-falls-095231965.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identified<\/a> the matching archway in the video it published as&nbsp;the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/mapio.net\/pic\/p-31214511\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eid Gah Darwaza<\/a>\u201d gate and reported that people hoisted a flag up a flagpole on top of it. Both the gate and the nearby mosque that appear in the Facebook video can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Eidgah+Darwaza\/@31.6206744,65.7093276,183m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m9!1m2!2m1!1sKandahar+gate!3m5!1s0x3ed671a1a5f2c939:0x589288c527f4e696!8m2!3d31.6210639!4d65.7096469!15sCg1LYW5kYWhhciBnYXRlWg8iDWthbmRhaGFyIGdhdGWSAQ1oaXN0b3JpY19zaXRlmgEjQ2haRFNVaE5NRzluUzBWSlEwRm5TVVJKTnkxdFExZG5FQUU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps<\/a> in Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban took control of Kandahar, Afghanistan\u2019s second-largest city and the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-taliban-abdul-ghani-baradar-e80165eb6c65fc7ea8fae50212ba56c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">birthplace<\/a> of the Taliban, on Aug. 13, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/8\/12\/afghanistan-taliban-kandahar-prison-police-ghazni-live-updates\">Al Jazeera<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/17\/fact-cnn-taliban-takeover-afghanistan-violent-mostly-peaceful\/\">(RELATED: Did CNN Describe The Taliban Takeover Of Afghanistan As \u2018Violent But Mostly Peaceful\u2019 In A Chyron?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the capital city of Kabul fell to the Taliban, footage of Afghans running alongside and climbing onto a U.S. military plane in attempts to escape the country circulated widely online, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-79d677c29b1e134437842217e469b481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>. Thousands of Afghan citizens have gathered outside Kabul\u2019s airport in recent days seeking to flee the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/08\/16\/taliban-takes-afghanistan-kabul-airport-last-stand-u-s\/8147419002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>People in Kabul and other Afghan cities took to the streets to protest the Taliban\u2019s rule on Thursday before the Taliban dispersed the groups using violence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/19\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-protests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims to show a video of the people of Kabul,\u00a0Afghanistan, welcoming the Taliban into the city.Verdict: False The video was filmed in the Afghan city &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}