How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Naharnet, 30 Sept, 06:59 UTC.
Second country: Iraq, with Shafaq News.
Second region: Africa, with Vanguard.
Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 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 · 4 countries · 83%

First movers

Naharnet 30 Sept, 06:59 UTC
Shafaq News +3h 15m
Vanguard +5h 8m
Shargh +7h 23m
Arab News +8h 29m

Last to join

Asharq Al-Awsat 30 Sept, 22:50 UTC
Arab News 30 Sept, 15:28 UTC
Shargh 30 Sept, 14:22 UTC
Vanguard 30 Sept, 12:08 UTC
Shafaq News 30 Sept, 10:14 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Nigeria. Middle East 4: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia. 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: English, Persian.
Timeline: Earliest article Naharnet, 30 Sept 2026, 06:59 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 10:20 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 22:50 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, Syria. 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 now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

30 Sept 2026 195 6.43 6 5 6 5 4.0

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 30 Sept, 10:20 UTC · Updated 22:50 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

Vanguard Nigeria 30 Sept, 12:08 UTC
Hezbollah denies any link to cell dismantled in Syria

Middle East 5 outlets

Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 30 Sept, 22:50 UTC
Hezbollah Denies Any Link to Cell Dismantled in Syria
Arab News Saudi Arabia 30 Sept, 15:28 UTC
Hezbollah denies any link to cell dismantled in Syria
Shargh Iran 30 Sept, 14:22 UTC
حزب‌الله لبنان ارتباط با هسته مسلح بازداشت‌شده در سوریه را رد کرد
Shafaq News Iraq 30 Sept, 10:14 UTC
Hezbollah denies link to Daraa cell
Naharnet Lebanon 30 Sept, 06:59 UTC
Hezbollah denies any link to cell dismantled in Syria
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- Hezbollah denies any link to cell dismantled in Syria 30 Sept, 06:59 UTC