Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

International condemnation of Houthi attacks on Saudi airports

Rank: 82
Running: 47h
Updated: 2h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 14
Regions: 1
Countries: 9
Languages: 2

Middle East Eye International · English 11 Oct, 02:45 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in العربية (11)

Read at Middle East Eye

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Al Sharq, 9 Oct, 12:33 UTC.
Second country: Oman, with Oman Daily.
Second region: International, with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 11 Oct, 08:09 UTC.
Now: 14 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 9 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

86%14%

Middle East 12 outlets · 8 countries · 86%
International 2 outlets · 14%

First movers

Al Sharq 9 Oct, 12:33 UTC
Oman Daily +2h 56m
SANA +4h 39m
Yemen TV +21h 30m
An-Nahar +31h 33m

Latest arrivals

Sky News Arabia 11 Oct, 08:52 UTC
Al Ittihad 11 Oct, 08:43 UTC
Shafaq News 11 Oct, 08:09 UTC
Al Watan (Syria) 11 Oct, 07:32 UTC
Jordan News 11 Oct, 06:10 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Arab leaders condemn Houthi attacks on Saudi airports, 6 to 8 Oct 2026, 11 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 14 outlets in 9 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 14 outlets, 4 state-owned, 10 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Middle East 8: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. 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 Al Sharq, 9 Oct 2026, 12:33 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 12:40 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 09:12 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: 2.56, 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 Arab leaders condemn Houthi attacks on Saudi airports. 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

9 Oct 2026 386 2.75 3 3 3 3 4.6

10 Oct 2026 131 4.31 7 7 6 6 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 9 Oct, 12:40 UTC · Updated 11 Oct, 09:12 UTC

Covered by 14 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
9 Oct 2026	386	2.75	3	3	3	3	4.6
10 Oct 2026	131	4.31	7	7	6	6	4.7