Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

Projectile attack targets passenger terminal at Riyadh King Khalid airport

Rank: –
Running: 13h
Updated: 12h ago
Momentum: –
Outlets: 6
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 2

Merged into Houthi drone and missile attacks hit Riyadh airport again, injuring several people

Al Modon Lebanon · Arabic 11 Oct, 06:17 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in فارسی (2)

Read at Al Modon

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Al Modon, 11 Oct, 06:17 UTC.
Second country: Jordan, with Roya News.
Second region: Africa, with Mosaïque FM.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 11 Oct, 14:37 UTC.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%83%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Middle East 5 outlets · 3 countries · 83%

First movers

Al Modon 11 Oct, 06:17 UTC
Roya News +8h 21m
An-Nahar +8h 41m
Etemad +8h 43m
Mosaïque FM +9h 2m

Latest arrivals

Khabar Online 11 Oct, 16:09 UTC
Mosaïque FM 11 Oct, 15:19 UTC
Etemad 11 Oct, 15:00 UTC
An-Nahar 11 Oct, 14:58 UTC
Roya News 11 Oct, 14:37 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Tunisia. Middle East 3: Iran, Jordan, Lebanon. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, Persian.
Timeline: Earliest article Al Modon, 11 Oct 2026, 06:17 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 14:40 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 16:09 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Middle East, Saudi Arabia. Topic Conflict & Security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None of its own. It was merged into Houthi drone and missile attacks hit Riyadh airport again, injuring several people, and the map counts it only inside that story. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Merged into Houthi drone and missile attacks hit Riyadh airport again, injuring several people. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.

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Started 11 Oct, 14:40 UTC · Updated 16:09 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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