Middle East / Iraq · Conflict & Security

US military completes withdrawal from Iraq after 23 years

Rank
Ran: 45h
Updated: 6d ago
Final
Outlets: 26
Regions: 4
Countries: 16
Languages: 13

Punch Nigeria · English 28 Sept, 12:30 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Ελληνικά (4) · +11 languages

Read at Punch

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Al Modon, 27 Sept, 09:30 UTC.
Second country: Germany, with Die Zeit.
Second region: Europe, with Die Zeit.
Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 28 Sept, 08:37 UTC.
Last article: 26 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 16 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

69%15%

Africa 2 outlets · 1 country · 8%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 8%
Europe 18 outlets · 10 countries · 69%
Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 15%

First movers

Al Modon 27 Sept, 09:30 UTC
Die Zeit +11h 24m
ORF +11h 55m
Dagbladet +15h
VG +15h 26m

Last to join

Dân Trí 29 Sept, 07:45 UTC
Nigerian Tribune 28 Sept, 13:15 UTC
Punch 28 Sept, 12:30 UTC
Hürriyet 28 Sept, 11:31 UTC
Vedomosti 28 Sept, 11:10 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 26 outlets in 16 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 26 outlets, 1 state-owned, 3 public-service, 22 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Nigeria. Asia-Pacific 2: Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 10: Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, Russia. Middle East 3: Lebanon, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, German, Greek, English, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article Al Modon, 27 Sept 2026, 09:30 UTC. First seen 27 Sept 2026, 10:00 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 07:45 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, Iraq. 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.
Chain: Continued by العراقيون يحتفلون بمغادرة القوات الأمريكية; Świętują w Iraku. Żołnierze USA wracają do domu. Jest nagranie; Military parade in Iraq after US troop withdrawal; بريطانيا تعلن خروج جميع جنودها من العراق واختتام مهمة التحالف رسمياً. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

27 Sept 2026 210 3.24 3 3 3 3 3.3

28 Sept 2026 109 9.36 25 15 23 14 3.3

29 Sept 2026 207 6.14 26 16 1 1 3.3 → 4.0

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Started 27 Sept, 10:00 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 07:45 UTC

Covered by 26 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
27 Sept 2026	210	3.24	3	3	3	3	3.3
28 Sept 2026	109	9.36	25	15	23	14	3.3
29 Sept 2026	207	6.14	26	16	1	1	3.3 → 4.0

Covered by 26 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Europe 18 outlets

Middle East 4 outlets