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US-led coalition ends military mission in Iraq

Rank
Ran
17h
Updated
4d ago
Final
Outlets
10
Regions
4
Countries
10
Languages
2

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INTLAl-Monitor International · English 30 Sept, 00:46 UTC

The earliest of 8 English reports

Read it also in العربية (2) · +0 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 31 hours.

5 10
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Al-Monitor, 30 Sept, 00:46 UTC.
  2. Second region: Middle East, with Oman Daily.
  3. Second country: Uganda, with Daily Monitor.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 30 Sept, 18:01 UTC.
  5. Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

32 of 32 hours

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The 10 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

20%30%20%20%

  • Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 20%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 30%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 20%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 20%
  • International 1 outlet · 10%

First movers

  1. INTLAl-Monitor 30 Sept, 00:46 UTC
  2. Oman Daily +15h 38m
  3. Daily Monitor +17h 15m
  4. Cyprus Mail +17h 50m
  5. Mosaïque FM +19h 14m

Last to join

  1. The Hindu 1 Oct, 08:00 UTC
  2. Irish Independent 1 Oct, 04:30 UTC
  3. Business Recorder 1 Oct, 01:29 UTC
  4. The Japan Times 30 Sept, 22:34 UTC
  5. Asharq Al-Awsat 30 Sept, 22:33 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 10 countries, across 4 regions. 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
Africa 2: Tunisia, Uganda. Asia-Pacific 3: India, Japan, Pakistan. Europe 2: Cyprus, Ireland. Middle East 2: Oman, Saudi Arabia. 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 Al-Monitor, 30 Sept 2026, 00:46 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 14:20 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 08:00 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.
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
30 Sept 2026 170 7.14 6 6 6 6 4.0
1 Oct 2026 368 3.38 10 10 3 3 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 14:20 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 08:00 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Africa 2 outlets

  • Mosaïque FM Tunisia 30 Sept, 20:00 UTC
    فرحة العراقيين بانسحاب القوات الأمركية لا تخفي قلق البعض من فراغ أمني
  • Daily Monitor Uganda 30 Sept, 18:01 UTC
    Joy mixed with fear as US forces quit Iraq leaving potential security vacuum

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • The Hindu India 1 Oct, 08:00 UTC
    Watch: Iraqis mark departure of US troops after more than two decades of war
  • Business Recorder Pakistan 1 Oct, 01:29 UTC
    US-led coalition ends mission in Iraq
  • The Japan Times Japan 30 Sept, 22:34 UTC
    Joy mixed with fear as U.S. forces depart Iraq leaving potential security vacuum

Europe 2 outlets

  • Irish Independent Ireland 1 Oct, 04:30 UTC
    Iraqis celebrate US withdrawal that ‘fills our hearts with joy’, but fear resurgence of Islamic State
  • Cyprus Mail Cyprus 30 Sept, 18:36 UTC
    Joy mixed with fear as US forces quit Iraq leaving potential security vacuum

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Asharq Al-Awsat Saudi Arabia 30 Sept, 22:33 UTC
    Joy Mixed with Fear as US Forces Quit Iraq Leaving Potential Security Vacuum
  • Oman Daily Oman 30 Sept, 16:24 UTC
    فرح وقلق.. تباين مشاعر العراقيين إزاء انسحاب القوات الأمريكية

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Monitor International 30 Sept, 00:46 UTC
    Joy mixed with fear as US forces quit Iraq leaving potential security vacuum
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