Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

Saudi Coalition Intercepts Houthi Missiles and Drones

Rank
Ran: 40h
Updated: 2d ago
Final
Outlets: 6
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 1

Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 1 Oct, 20:20 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

The only language so far · English, 6 reports

Read at Anadolu Agency

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Anadolu Agency, 1 Oct, 20:20 UTC.
Second country: Saudi Arabia, with Saudi Gazette.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with NDTV.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 1 Oct, 20:20 UTC.
Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

17%83%

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Middle East 5 outlets · 3 countries · 83%

First movers

Anadolu Agency 1 Oct, 20:20 UTC
Saudi Gazette +19m
NDTV +58m
Gulf News +5h 40m
Khaleej Times +7h 7m

Last to join

Asharq Al-Awsat 2 Oct, 05:27 UTC
Khaleej Times 2 Oct, 03:27 UTC
Gulf News 2 Oct, 02:00 UTC
NDTV 1 Oct, 21:18 UTC
Saudi Gazette 1 Oct, 20:39 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 1 state-owned, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: India. Middle East 3: Saudi Arabia, Turkey, 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: English.
Timeline: Earliest article Anadolu Agency, 1 Oct 2026, 20:20 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 20:30 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 12:40 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: 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 397 3.21 3 3 3 3 4.0

3 Oct 2026 361 2.29 6 4 1 1 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 20:30 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 12:40 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

NDTV India 1 Oct, 21:18 UTC
Saudi Coalition Says Intercepted Houthi Missiles, Drones

Middle East 5 outlets

Saudi Gazette Saudi Arabia 3 Oct, 12:40 UTC
4 Houthi missiles intercepted in Asir, Asian expat injured
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Houthi missile intercepted in Khamis Mushait, causes damage to buildings and vehicles 1 Oct, 20:39 UTC
Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 2 Oct, 05:27 UTC
Coalition Intercepts Houthi Ballistic Missile Targeting Khamis Mushait
Khaleej Times United Arab Emirates 2 Oct, 03:27 UTC
Saudi-led coalition intercepts Houthi missile attack towards Khamis Mushait
Gulf News United Arab Emirates 2 Oct, 02:00 UTC
Saudi Arabia intercepts Houthi ballistic missile; limited damage reported
Anadolu Agency Turkey 1 Oct, 20:20 UTC
Debris from intercepted Houthi missile damaged buildings, vehicles in Saudi Arabia: Civil Defense

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
1 Oct 2026	397	3.21	3	3	3	3	4.0
3 Oct 2026	361	2.29	6	4	1	1	4.0