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Lebanese army seizes explosives smuggled from Syria

Rank
Ran: 16h
Updated: 3d ago
Closed
Outlets: 10
Regions: 1
Countries: 6
Languages: 2

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 1 Oct, 16:29 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in العربية (4)

Read at Anadolu Agency

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: An-Nahar, 1 Oct, 15:39 UTC.
Second country: Turkey, with Anadolu Agency.
Second region: International, with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 1 Oct, 16:29 UTC.
Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 6 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

90%

Middle East 9 outlets · 5 countries · 90%
International 1 outlet · 10%

First movers

An-Nahar 1 Oct, 15:39 UTC
Anadolu Agency +50m
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed +1h 15m
Al Modon +1h 19m
The National +1h 25m

Last to join

Naharnet 2 Oct, 08:36 UTC
Asharq Al-Awsat 1 Oct, 22:59 UTC
Syria TV 1 Oct, 21:14 UTC
Arab News 1 Oct, 18:54 UTC
Enab Baladi 1 Oct, 18:01 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 10 outlets in 6 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 1 state-owned, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Middle East 5: Lebanon, 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, English.
Timeline: Earliest article An-Nahar, 1 Oct 2026, 15:39 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 08:36 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, Lebanon. 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: 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

1 Oct 2026 149 8.06 8 6 8 6 4.0

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Started 1 Oct, 15:50 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 08:36 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Middle East 9 outlets

Naharnet Lebanon 2 Oct, 08:36 UTC
Lebanese Army says seized 245 kg of TNT at Syria border
+2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
- Lebanese Army says seized 245 kg of TNT at Syria border 2 Oct, 08:36 UTC
- Lebanese Army says seized 245 kg of TNT at Syria border 2 Oct, 08:36 UTC
Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 1 Oct, 22:59 UTC
Lebanon Army Says Seized 245 Kg of TNT at Syria Border
Syria TV Syria 1 Oct, 21:14 UTC
الجيش اللبناني يحبط تهريب 245 كيلوغراماً من الـ"TNT" وعبوات ناسفة من سوريا
Arab News Saudi Arabia 1 Oct, 18:54 UTC
Lebanese army says it thwarts attempt to smuggle explosives from Syria
Enab Baladi Syria 1 Oct, 18:01 UTC
Lebanon Seizes Explosives Smuggled from Syria
The National United Arab Emirates 1 Oct, 17:03 UTC
Lebanese army seizes 250kg of explosives smuggled from Syria
Al Modon Lebanon 1 Oct, 16:58 UTC
الجيش يضبط 245 كلغ TNT مهرَّبة من سوريا
Anadolu Agency Turkey 1 Oct, 16:29 UTC
Lebanese army foils attempt to smuggle 540 pounds of TNT from Syria
An-Nahar Lebanon 1 Oct, 15:39 UTC
الجيش اللبناني يحبط تهريب 245 كلغ من "TNT" من سوريا إلى لبنان

International 1 outlet

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed International 1 Oct, 16:54 UTC
الجيش اللبناني يحبط تهريب 245 كيلوغراماً "تي أن تي" من سورية