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ISIS claims responsibility for Kirkuk police attack

Rank
Running
34h
Updated
1h ago
Momentum
+18%
Outlets
9
Regions
2
Countries
7
Languages
5

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Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia · English 5 Oct, 22:48 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Ελληνικά (2) · العربية (2) · Türkçe (1) · فارسی (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 35 hours.

5 10
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Sözcü, 5 Oct, 18:49 UTC.
  2. Second country: Iran, with Shargh.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 5 Oct, 18:49 UTC.
  4. Second region: International, with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
  5. Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

35 of 35 hours

Earlier Later

The 7 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

22%67%

  • Europe 2 outlets · 1 country · 22%
  • Middle East 6 outlets · 5 countries · 67%
  • International 1 outlet · 11%

First movers

  1. Sözcü 5 Oct, 18:49 UTC
  2. Shargh +58m
  3. Sky News Arabia +2h 49m
  4. Asharq Al-Awsat +3h 59m
  5. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed +12h 28m

Latest arrivals

  1. ERT 7 Oct, 03:36 UTC
  2. Proto Thema 6 Oct, 21:42 UTC
  3. Shafaq News 6 Oct, 20:54 UTC
  4. The National 6 Oct, 08:55 UTC
  5. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed 6 Oct, 07:17 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 7 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 1 public-service, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 1: Greece. Middle East 5: Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, 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, Greek, English, Persian, Turkish.
Timeline
Earliest article Sözcü, 5 Oct 2026, 18:49 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 18:50 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 03:36 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 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
1.09, 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
5 Oct 2026 226 3.93 4 4 4 4 4.1
6 Oct 2026 323 3.21 8 7 5 4 4.6

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 18:50 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 03:36 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Europe 2 outlets

  • ERT Greece 7 Oct, 03:36 UTC
    Ιράκ: Το Ισλαμικό Κράτος ανέλαβε την ευθύνη για επίθεση σε αστυνομικούς
  • Proto Thema Greece 6 Oct, 21:42 UTC
    Το Ισλαμικό Κράτος ανέλαβε την ευθύνη για επίθεση σε αστυνομικούς στο Ιράκ

Middle East 6 outlets

  • Shafaq News Iraq 6 Oct, 20:54 UTC
    ISIS claims responsibility for Kirkuk attack
  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates 6 Oct, 20:32 UTC
    "داعش" يتبنى هجوما على الشرطة العراقية جنوب غربي كركوك
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    • داعش يظهر مجددا ويقتل شرطيا عراقيا ويصيب أربعة قرب كركوك 5 Oct, 21:39 UTC
  • The National United Arab Emirates 6 Oct, 08:55 UTC
    Iraqi police officer killed in ISIS attack near Kirkuk
  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 5 Oct, 22:48 UTC
    ISIS Attack Kills Iraqi Policeman Near Kirkuk
  • Shargh Iran 5 Oct, 19:47 UTC
    حمله داعش به مقر پلیس عراق
  • Sözcü Turkey 5 Oct, 18:49 UTC
    Kerkük'te IŞİD saldırısı'nda 1 polis öldü

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International 6 Oct, 07:17 UTC
    هجوم لـ"داعش" يستهدف حاجزاً أمنياً في كركوك ويوقع قتيلاً وجرحى
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