Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

Saudi Arabia intercepts Houthi ballistic missile near Riyadh

Rank
Running: 33h
Updated: 18h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 7
Regions: 2
Countries: 7
Languages: 1

Al Roya Oman · Arabic 6 Oct, 15:20 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Arabic, 7 reports

Read at Al Roya

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Al Roya, 6 Oct, 15:20 UTC.
Second country: United Arab Emirates, with Sky News Arabia.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 6 Oct, 16:34 UTC.
Second region: Africa, with Mosaïque FM.
Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

14%86%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
Middle East 6 outlets · 6 countries · 86%

First movers

Al Roya 6 Oct, 15:20 UTC
Sky News Arabia +1h 14m
Al Sharq +1h 26m
An-Nahar +6h 47m
Asharq News +6h 50m

Latest arrivals

SANA 7 Oct, 07:30 UTC
Mosaïque FM 7 Oct, 07:02 UTC
Asharq News 6 Oct, 22:10 UTC
An-Nahar 6 Oct, 22:07 UTC
Al Sharq 6 Oct, 16:45 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 7 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 1 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: Tunisia. Middle East 6: Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates. 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.
Timeline: Earliest article Al Roya, 6 Oct 2026, 15:20 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 16:40 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 07:40 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: 0.14, 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

6 Oct 2026 213 4.20 5 5 5 5 4.6

7 Oct 2026 294 3.46 7 7 5 5 4.6

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Started 6 Oct, 16:40 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 07:40 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

Mosaïque FM Tunisia 7 Oct, 07:02 UTC
الدفاع السعودية تعترض صاروخا حوثيا فوق الرياض

Middle East 6 outlets

Al Sharq Qatar 7 Oct, 07:40 UTC
تحالف دعم الشرعية في اليمن: اعتراض وتدمير صاروخ باليستي شمال الرياض
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- اعتراض وتدمير صاروخ باليستي أطلقته جماعة الحوثي باتجاه خميس مشيط السعودية 6 Oct, 16:45 UTC
SANA Syria 7 Oct, 07:30 UTC
التحالف يعترض صاروخاً باليستياً أطلقته ميليشيا الحوثي شمال مدينة الرياض
Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates 7 Oct, 05:42 UTC
السعودية تعترض صاروخا أطلقه الحوثي على الرياض
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- اعتراض وتدمير صاروخ بالستي حوثي باتجاه خميس مشيط 6 Oct, 16:34 UTC
Asharq News Saudi Arabia 7 Oct, 02:16 UTC
التحالف: اعتراض وتدمير صاروخ باليستي أطلقه الحوثيون شمال الرياض
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- التحالف يعلن اعتراض وتدمير صاروخ باليستي أطلقه الحوثيون باتجاه خميس مشيط 6 Oct, 22:10 UTC
An-Nahar Lebanon 6 Oct, 22:07 UTC
اعتراض وتدمير صاروخ باليستي أطلقه الحوثيون باتجاه السعودية
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- اعتراض وتدمير صاروخ باليستي أطلقه الحوثيون باتجاه السعودية 6 Oct, 22:07 UTC
Al Roya Oman 6 Oct, 15:20 UTC
السعودية تدمر صاروخا باليستيا أطلقه الحوثيون باتجاه خميس مشيط

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
6 Oct 2026	213	4.20	5	5	5	5	4.6
7 Oct 2026	294	3.46	7	7	5	5	4.6