Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

Saudi-led coalition condemns attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport as terrorism

Rank: –
Running: 12h
Updated: 5h ago
Momentum: –
Outlets: 6
Regions: 1
Countries: 5
Languages: 1

Merged into Houthi attack on Riyadh airport kills 12, prompts international condemnation

Al Watan (SA) Saudi Arabia · Arabic 10 Oct, 22:54 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Arabic, 6 reports

Read at Al Watan (SA)

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Al Watan (SA), 10 Oct, 22:54 UTC.
Second country: Jordan, with Roya News.
Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 10 Oct, 22:54 UTC.
Now: 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

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Middle East 6 outlets · 5 countries · 100%

First movers

Al Watan (SA) 10 Oct, 22:54 UTC
Asharq News +20m
Roya News +23m
SANA +24m
Aden Al-Ghad +26m

Latest arrivals

Al Sharq 11 Oct, 04:09 UTC
Aden Al-Ghad 10 Oct, 23:20 UTC
SANA 10 Oct, 23:17 UTC
Roya News 10 Oct, 23:17 UTC
Asharq News 10 Oct, 23:13 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 5 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Middle East 5: Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen. 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.
Timeline: Earliest article Al Watan (SA), 10 Oct 2026, 22:54 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 23:20 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 05:48 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 attack on Riyadh airport kills 12, prompts international condemnation, 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 attack on Riyadh airport kills 12, prompts international condemnation. 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.
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

10 Oct 2026 93 5.40 4 4 4 4 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 23:20 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 05:48 UTC

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