Middle East / Yemen · Conflict & Security

Houthis attack Aden airport as Yemen fighting intensifies

Rank: 82
Running: 26h
Updated: 8m ago
Momentum: Holding
Outlets: 52
Regions: 5
Countries: 33
Languages: 16

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Middle East Eye International · English 7 Oct, 01:24 UTC

The earliest of 23 English reports

Read it also in العربية (7) · +14 languages

Read at Middle East Eye

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Afghanistan International, 7 Oct, 00:42 UTC.
Second country: Greece, with ERT.
Second region: Europe, with ERT.
Fastest hour: +8 outlets from 7 Oct, 05:54 UTC.
Now: 52 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 33 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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Africa 4 outlets · 3 countries · 8%
Americas 5 outlets · 3 countries · 9%
Asia-Pacific 14 outlets · 10 countries · 27%
Europe 13 outlets · 8 countries · 25%
Middle East 13 outlets · 8 countries · 25%
International 3 outlets · 6%

First movers

Afghanistan International 7 Oct, 00:42 UTC
ERT +5m
Sky News Arabia +29m
Middle East Eye +42m
Al-Monitor +1h 4m

Latest arrivals

TASS 8 Oct, 03:33 UTC
Asharq Al-Awsat 7 Oct, 20:20 UTC
The Guardian 7 Oct, 19:45 UTC
Poder360 7 Oct, 18:27 UTC
Tengrinews 7 Oct, 17:46 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 52 outlets in 33 countries, across 5 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 52 outlets, 4 state-owned, 4 public-service, 44 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 3: Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia. Americas 3: Argentina, Brazil, United States. Asia-Pacific 10: Afghanistan, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 8: Austria, Cyprus, Czechia, France, Greece, Netherlands, Russia, United Kingdom. Middle East 8: Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, 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, Czech, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Indonesian, Malay, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article Afghanistan International, 7 Oct 2026, 00:42 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 01:00 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 03:35 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, Yemen. 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: 2.41, as of now. 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

7 Oct 2026 11 22.38 51 33 51 33 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 7 Oct, 01:00 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 03:35 UTC

Covered by 52 outlets

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Africa 4 outlets

TimesLIVE South Africa 7 Oct, 11:48 UTC
Houthis strike Aden airport as Yemen fighting escalates
Dakaractu Senegal 7 Oct, 11:35 UTC
Les Houthis attaquent l’aéroport de Ryad, la capitale saoudienne
Daily Maverick South Africa 7 Oct, 08:20 UTC
Houthis attack Aden airport as fighting intensifies in Yemen
Mosaïque FM Tunisia 7 Oct, 06:33 UTC
هجوم حوثي يستهدف مطار عدن.. والطيران اليمني يرد بغارات مكثفة

Americas 5 outlets

Poder360 Brazil 7 Oct, 18:27 UTC
Houthis atacam aeroporto de Aden, no Iêmen, com mísseis e drones
gCaptain United States 7 Oct, 09:56 UTC
Houthis Attack Aden Airport as Fighting Intensifies in Yemen
Infobae Argentina 7 Oct, 06:16 UTC
Las milicias hutíes de Yemen reivindican un ataque contra un convoy militar saudí cerca del aeropuerto de Adén
Metrópoles Brazil 7 Oct, 05:24 UTC
Houthis lançam mísseis contra o aeroporto de Aden, no Iêmen
Estadão Brazil 7 Oct, 04:20 UTC
Houthis atacam aeroporto de Áden, no Iêmen, com drones e míssei; veja vídeos

Asia-Pacific 14 outlets

Covered by 52 outlets

Africa 4 outlets

Americas 5 outlets

Asia-Pacific 14 outlets

Europe 13 outlets

Middle East 13 outlets

International 3 outlets