Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

Houthis claim missile attacks on Saudi airports

Rank
Running: 32h
Updated: 19m ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 46
Regions: 5
Countries: 32
Languages: 15

+21

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 5 Oct, 20:59 UTC

The earliest of 19 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (4) · +13 languages

Read at Anadolu Agency

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Blick, 5 Oct, 20:39 UTC.
Second country: Russia, with Interfax.
Second region: Middle East, with Anadolu Agency.
Fastest hour: +9 outlets from 5 Oct, 20:39 UTC.
Now: 46 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 32 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 2 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

31%41%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%
Americas 5 outlets · 5 countries · 11%
Asia-Pacific 14 outlets · 8 countries · 31%
Europe 19 outlets · 13 countries · 41%
Middle East 5 outlets · 4 countries · 11%
International 2 outlets · 4%

First movers

Blick 5 Oct, 20:39 UTC
Interfax +18m
Anadolu Agency +20m
Infobae +22m
Shafaq News +26m

Latest arrivals

Expreso (EC) 7 Oct, 00:31 UTC
Al Jazeera 6 Oct, 21:57 UTC
El Comercio 6 Oct, 12:29 UTC
The Wall Street Journal 6 Oct, 10:22 UTC
France 24 6 Oct, 10:15 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Houthis claim missile and drone attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities, 3 to 5 Oct 2026, 55 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 46 outlets in 32 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 46 outlets, 6 state-owned, 4 public-service, 36 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Tunisia. Americas 5: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, United States. Asia-Pacific 8: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Vietnam. Europe 13: Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland. Middle East 4: Iraq, Qatar, 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, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article Blick, 5 Oct 2026, 20:39 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 20:50 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 05:03 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, Saudi Arabia. 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: 2.69, 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.
Chain: Continues Houthis claim missile and drone attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities. 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

5 Oct 2026 30 15.21 16 15 16 15 4.1

6 Oct 2026 33 15.49 44 30 31 22 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 20:50 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 05:03 UTC

Covered by 46 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
5 Oct 2026	30	15.21	16	15	16	15	4.1
6 Oct 2026	33	15.49	44	30	31	22	4.6

Covered by 46 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Americas 5 outlets

Asia-Pacific 14 outlets

Europe 19 outlets

Middle East 5 outlets

International 2 outlets