Middle East / Syria · Energy

Gas pipeline fire in Syria blamed on sabotage

Rank
Ran: 10h
Updated: 6d ago
Closed
Outlets: 7
Regions: 1
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

Arab News Saudi Arabia · English 29 Sept, 00:37 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in العربية (6)

Read at Arab News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: SANA, 28 Sept, 21:05 UTC.
Second country: United Arab Emirates, with Sky News Arabia.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 28 Sept, 21:05 UTC.
Second region: International, with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

86%14%

Middle East 6 outlets · 4 countries · 86%
International 1 outlet · 14%

First movers

SANA 28 Sept, 21:05 UTC
Sky News Arabia +52m
An-Nahar +1h 52m
Asharq News +3h 1m
Arab News +3h 32m

Last to join

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed 29 Sept, 07:26 UTC
Syria TV 29 Sept, 06:56 UTC
Arab News 29 Sept, 00:37 UTC
Asharq News 29 Sept, 00:06 UTC
An-Nahar 28 Sept, 22:58 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 5 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Middle East 4: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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.
Timeline: Earliest article SANA, 28 Sept 2026, 21:05 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 21:20 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 07:26 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 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.
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

28 Sept 2026 283 3.70 3 3 3 3 3.3

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 21:20 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 07:26 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Middle East 6 outlets

Syria TV Syria 29 Sept, 06:56 UTC
السورية للبترول: عمل تخريبي وراء حريق خط الغاز بدير الزور وتوقف الضخ من الجبسة
Arab News Saudi Arabia 29 Sept, 00:37 UTC
Syria says gas pipeline fire between Al-Shola and Deir Ezzor caused by "act of sabotage"
Asharq News Saudi Arabia 29 Sept, 00:06 UTC
سوريا.. حريق في خط غاز بين "الشولا" ودير الزور بسبب "عمل تخريبي"
An-Nahar Lebanon 28 Sept, 22:58 UTC
سوريا... حريق في خط للغاز بين الشولا ودير الزور إثر "عمل تخريبي"
Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates 28 Sept, 21:57 UTC
سوريا.. حريق بخط غاز في دير الزور جراء "عمل تخريبي"
SANA Syria 28 Sept, 21:05 UTC
حريق في خط للغاز بين الشولا ودير الزور وفرق ‏الإطفاء تواصل إخماده
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- حريق في خط للغاز بين الشولا ودير الزور وفرق ‏الإطفاء تواصل إخماده 28 Sept, 21:05 UTC

International 1 outlet

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed International 29 Sept, 07:26 UTC
سورية.. حريق في خط للغاز بدير الزور جراء عمل تخريبي