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President Joe Biden erroneously claimed no U.S. troops have died during his administration in Thursday night’s presidential debate.

“I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any, this decade, that not any troops dying anywhere in the world, like he did,” Biden claimed, which is false. More than 15 U.S. service members have been killed in combat during his presidency, which does not include those killed during training accidents.

Thirteen U.S. troops were killed on Aug. 26, 2021, in a bombing in Kabul that left approximately 170 people dead in total. The troops had been conducting an emergency evacuation operation to help Americans and at-risk Afghans escape to safety given the Taliban’s takeover. Dozens of other U.S. service members were wounded in the bombing.

Killed in the attack were 11 Marines: Lance Cpl. David Espinoza, 20; Sgt. Nicole Gee, 23; Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover, 31; Cpl. Hunter Lopez, 22; Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, 20; Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, 20; Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, 20; Cpl. Daegan William-Tyeler Page, 23; Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25; Cpl. Humberto Sanchez, 22; and Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, 20. Also killed were Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss, 23, and Navy Hospital Corpsman Maxton Soviak, 22.

Biden went to the dignified transfer for these troops, or the transportation of the bodies from overseas back to the United States, but was caught looking at his watch during it, which prompted outrage from the families.

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Additionally, three U.S. service members — Staff Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett — were killed in Jordan in January by an Iranian-backed militia aerial attack. About three dozen others were injured in this attack.

Biden met with those families during the dignified transfer.

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These militias, which are based in Iraq and Syria, have carried out more than 170 attacks since mid-October, following Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel. Dozens of U.S. troops have been injured in these attacks in total, but only those three service members have lost their lives.

Separately, two Navy SEALs died during an operation to board an unflagged ship that was carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen for the Houthis in January.