Middle East / Iraq · Energy

Iraq imports petrol through Syria amid rapprochement

Rank
Ran: 44h
Updated: 6d ago
Closed
Outlets: 4
Regions: 1
Countries: 3
Languages: 1

The National United Arab Emirates · English 27 Sept, 11:49 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

The only language so far · English, 4 reports

Read at The National

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The National, 27 Sept, 11:49 UTC.
Second country: Saudi Arabia, with Arab News.
Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 100%

First movers

The National 27 Sept, 11:49 UTC
Arab News +8h 15m
Asharq Al-Awsat +9h 50m
Kurdistan24 +45h 19m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Syria begins gasoline shipments to Iraq, 25 to 26 Sept 2026, 6 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 3 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 1 state-owned, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Middle East 3: Iraq, Saudi Arabia, 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: English.
Timeline: Earliest article The National, 27 Sept 2026, 11:49 UTC. First seen 27 Sept 2026, 12:40 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 09:07 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 Energy. 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: Continues Syria begins gasoline shipments to Iraq. 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 279 2.49 3 2 3 2 3.3

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Started 27 Sept, 12:40 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 09:07 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Middle East 4 outlets

Kurdistan24 Iraq 29 Sept, 09:07 UTC
Iraq Imports Gasoline From Syria as Fuel Shortage Deepens
Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 27 Sept, 21:39 UTC
Syria Says Sending Imported Petrol to Iraq
Arab News Saudi Arabia 27 Sept, 20:04 UTC
Syria says sending imported petrol to Iraq
The National United Arab Emirates 27 Sept, 11:49 UTC
Iraq imports petrol through Syria in another US-backed step towards closer ties