Middle East / Iraq · Conflict & Security

US completes military withdrawal from Iraq after 12 years

Rank
Ran: 2d
Updated: 5d ago
Final
Outlets: 126
Regions: 5
Countries: 65
Languages: 29

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Der Spiegel, 28 Sept, 05:39 UTC.
Second country: Austria, with Kurier.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Express Tribune.
Fastest hour: +17 outlets from 30 Sept, 07:57 UTC.
Last article: 126 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 65 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

13%26%36%20%

Africa 5 outlets · 5 countries · 4%
Americas 16 outlets · 10 countries · 13%
Asia-Pacific 33 outlets · 18 countries · 26%
Europe 45 outlets · 21 countries · 36%
Middle East 25 outlets · 10 countries · 20%
International 2 outlets · 1%

First movers

Der Spiegel 28 Sept, 05:39 UTC
Kurier +10h 21m
The Express Tribune +20h 39m
SRF +24h 16m
CNA +25h 5m

Last to join

La Nación (CR) 30 Sept, 13:54 UTC
MyJoyOnline 30 Sept, 13:47 UTC
Il Post 30 Sept, 13:32 UTC
TASS 30 Sept, 13:08 UTC
Kun.uz 30 Sept, 12:32 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 126 outlets in 65 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 126 outlets, 9 state-owned, 13 public-service, 104 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 5: Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia. Americas 10: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Jamaica, United States, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 18: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 21: Austria, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 10: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, 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, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Nepali, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Der Spiegel, 28 Sept 2026, 05:39 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 06:01 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 13:54 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: 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.
Chain: Continued by US completes military withdrawal from Iraq; La salida de las últimas tropas de EEUU de Irak eleva los temores kurdos y las milicias celebran; US Forces Leave Iraq After Two Decades As Iran Emerges Stronger; WSJ ⟩ USA sõjavägi väljus Iraagist, jättes selle ohtlikku seisu; Après plus de 20 ans de présence dans le pays, les derniers soldats américains quittent l'Irak; ÜLEVAADE ⟩ USA vägede lahkumine Iraagist annab Iraanile vabad käed; US faces another major Middle East troop withdrawal, but threat remains. 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

29 Sept 2026 11 42.01 43 33 41 33 3.3 → 4.0

30 Sept 2026 11 45.52 126 65 92 52 4.0

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Started 28 Sept, 06:01 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 13:54 UTC

Covered by 126 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
29 Sept 2026	11	42.01	43	33	41	33	3.3 → 4.0
30 Sept 2026	11	45.52	126	65	92	52	4.0

Covered by 126 outlets

Africa 5 outlets

Americas 16 outlets

Asia-Pacific 33 outlets

Europe 45 outlets

Middle East 25 outlets

International 2 outlets