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Social media posts urging people to pray for Afghanistan feature a photo of a man walking down a rubble-strewn street with a young girl in his arms. But the image was taken in the Iraqi city of Mosul, not Afghanistan. A good father will protect his daughter. Pray for Afghanistan, says an August 21, 2021 Facebook post that includes the image. A screenshot of a Facebook post taken on August 24, 2021 Other examples of the claim -- part of a series of inaccurate assertions circulating online after Taliban insurgents seized control of Afghanistan after 20 years of war -- appeared on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram . AFP conducted a reverse image search and found that the photo is a cropped version of a Reuters picture from Mosul during the battle to retake the north Iraq city from the Islamic State jihadist group. A man cries as he carries his daughter while walking from an Islamic State controlled part of Mosul towards Iraqi special forces soldiers during a battle in Mosul, Iraq, March 4, 2017, the caption of the photo says. A screenshot taken on August 24, 2021 shows a Reuters photo AFP Fact Check has debunked other false or misleading claims about Afghanistan here .
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