A screenshot of the man dangling from a US Black Hawk helicopter from the skies of Kandahar, Afghanistan. A video purportedly showing a man being brutally hanged from a helicopter by the Taliban in Afghanistan's Kandahar has gone viral. Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter in Kandahar pic.twitter.com/TwCkVzUrnL — Old Holborn® (@Holbornlolz) August 30, 2021Conservative blog sites, pundits and politicians in the United States such as Senator Ted Cruz, shared the video castigating the group for their 'barbarity'. It turns out the post I shared w/ a video of Taliban “hanging a man” from a helicopter may be inaccurate. The original video was shared by Arab news channel AlHadath back in 2019 with the caption:"Yemen...a military commander targets militias north of Al-Dhalea".

Source: The Express Tribune September 01, 2021 18:00 UTC