NYTimes and WaPo are respected newspapers and are extremely careful not to publish fake news, since doing so would destroy their sterling reputations.

I am aware that GW Bush's war in Iraq killed between a hundred thousand and a million non-combatant women, children, and elderly men. That is beyond the large number of armed combatants. I don't know how many non-combatants died in the Middle East during US war involvement during the Obama administration. No doubt it was a large number, though I doubt the US takes responsibility for close to the deaths of the Bush wars.

Maybe Trump will take us out of the Middle East wars. On the other hand, maybe Trump will drop hydrogen bombs on Iran.