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Italy completes military withdrawal from Iraq after 12 years

Rank
Ran
17h
Updated
5d ago
Final
Outlets
12
Regions
4
Countries
11
Languages
7

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The Business Standard Bangladesh · English 29 Sept, 13:15 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

Read it also in العربية (2) · Indonesia (1) · Italiano (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · فارسی (1) · 中文 (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 12 after 18 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Business Standard, 29 Sept, 13:15 UTC.
  2. Second country: Lebanon, with An-Nahar.
  3. Second region: Middle East, with An-Nahar.
  4. Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 29 Sept, 14:53 UTC.
  5. Last article: 12 outlets.

Where it travelled

18 of 18 hours

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The 11 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

34%50%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 8%
  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 4 countries · 34%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 8%
  • Middle East 6 outlets · 5 countries · 50%

First movers

  1. The Business Standard 29 Sept, 13:15 UTC
  2. An-Nahar +46m
  3. Anadolu Agency +1h 6m
  4. Il Post +1h 38m
  5. Shafaq News +1h 53m

Last to join

  1. Media Indonesia 30 Sept, 06:57 UTC
  2. VOV 30 Sept, 00:02 UTC
  3. Kurdistan24 29 Sept, 19:35 UTC
  4. Liberty Times 29 Sept, 16:40 UTC
  5. Arab News 29 Sept, 15:40 UTC

The figures

Coverage
12 outlets in 11 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 12 outlets, 3 state-owned, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Tunisia. Asia-Pacific 4: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam. Europe 1: Italy. Middle East 5: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 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, English, Persian, Indonesian, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article The Business Standard, 29 Sept 2026, 13:15 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 13:30 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 06:57 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.
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
29 Sept 2026 197 6.44 9 9 9 9 3.3 → 4.0
30 Sept 2026 371 3.47 12 11 2 2 4.0

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Started 29 Sept, 13:30 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 06:57 UTC

Covered by 12 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia 29 Sept, 15:22 UTC
    إيطاليا تنهي وجودها العسكري في العراق بعد 12 عاما

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

  • Media Indonesia Indonesia 30 Sept, 06:57 UTC
    Italia Tarik Seluruh Pasukan dari Irak, Akhiri 12 Tahun Kehadiran Militer
  • VOV Vietnam 30 Sept, 00:02 UTC
    Lực lượng Mỹ và Italy hoàn tất rút quân khỏi Iraq
  • Liberty Times Taiwan 29 Sept, 16:40 UTC
    義大利完成從伊拉克撤軍 12年軍事部署告終
  • The Business Standard Bangladesh 29 Sept, 13:15 UTC
    Italy completes troop withdrawal from Iraq

Europe 1 outlet

  • Il Post Italy 29 Sept, 14:53 UTC
    L’Italia ha completato il ritiro dei suoi soldati dall’Iraq, dopo 12 anni di missione

Middle East 6 outlets

  • Kurdistan24 Iraq 29 Sept, 19:35 UTC
    Italy Announces Full Military Withdrawal From Iraq
  • Arab News Saudi Arabia 29 Sept, 15:40 UTC
    Italy completes troop withdrawal from Iraq
  • Shargh Iran 29 Sept, 15:30 UTC
    پایان حضور نظامی ۱۲ ساله ایتالیا در عراق
  • Shafaq News Iraq 29 Sept, 15:08 UTC
    Italy ends twelve-year military presence in Iraq
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 29 Sept, 14:21 UTC
    Italy completes withdrawal of armed forces from Iraq after 12 years
  • An-Nahar Lebanon 29 Sept, 14:01 UTC
    إيطاليا تنهي وجودها العسكري في العراق بعد 12 عاماً
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