Claim: A video shows TTP fighters speaking in a video after capturing and burning the Pakistan Army’s tanks in Kurram. The accompanying caption claims over a dozen soldiers were also killed.
Fact: The video is old and unrelated. The claim of soldiers being killed is unsubstantiated, with no verifiable reports of such an attack on 11 December 2025.
On 11 December 2025, X (formerly Twitter) user @RealWahidaAFG posted (archive) a video showing fighters associated with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) — also known as the Pakistani Taliban and Fitna al-Khawarij — standing in front of an armoured vehicle and speaking to the camera.
The TTP said it took control of four Pakistan Army tanks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram Agency and burned them, the user claimed, adding that they killed 14 soldiers in the attack. The full caption is as follows:
“🚨#BREAKING In Kurram Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, TTP fighters claim to have seized four Pakistani army tanks during recent clashes and set them ablaze. They also report that 14 Pakistani soldiers were killed in the attack.”
@RealWahidaAFG (archive) is an apparent pro-Afghan, anti-Pakistan, and pro–India user who claims to be a “HR [human rights] defender”. We have previously debunked their false claims and other outlets accredited by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) have also disproved their posts.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check scoured news reports about such an attack or development pertaining to captured army vehicles but did not find any from reputable media outlets.
We found a logo at the bottom-right corner of the video that is linked to the TTP-associated Al Khalid Media, as confirmed by Iftikhar Firdous, the founding editor of The Khorasan Diary, a non-partisan journalist-run platform.
Reverse-image search of keyframes from the viral video led us to a 21 July 2025 article on Afghanistan International with the title, “Pakhtunkhwa: TTP kills 8 Pakistani soldiers, injures 14 others in Orakzai Agency.”
While we did not find any press release on the website of the Pakistan Army’s media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), we did come across different media reports, including one by The Khorasan Diary, of eight paramilitary troops being “killed in a clash in KP’s Orakzai”.
On 21 July 2025, The Khorasan Diary also reported citing sources, “A vehicle that was carrying the troops was recovered from the site of the exchange of fire this morning, as the operation lasted for around 8 hours.”
We also found a screenshot from the video in an X post from 19 July 2025.
Since the viral post mentions that the supposed “attack” took place in Kurram Agency, we searched for reports about the same by Pakistani media outlets but found the latest mention in a 20 November 2025 article on Dawn News’ Urdu website with the title, “23 Khawarij killed in 2 security forces operations in Kurram district.”
We also came across an X post by The Khorasan Diary from 8 December, stating that “6 security personnel have lost their lives and 4 have been injured in two back to back ambush attacks by the Taliban in Manato, Kurram District”.
Security personnel were also killed in Kurram in different incidents in October 2025, according to multiple media reports.
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the video is old and unrelated, while the claim about an 11 December attack in Kurram Agency is unsubstantiated.
Virality
The post by @RealWahidaAFG has been viewed over 62,000 times so far.
Another X post — also by an Afghan user — gained more than 56,600 views before the account was deleted.
It was shared here on Facebook and here on Instagram.
The false claim was also amplified by Indian users and outlets as has often happened in the past. Some of these can be viewed here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Conclusion: The video is old and unrelated. The claim of soldiers being killed is unsubstantiated, with no verifiable reports of such an attack on 11 December 2025.
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