Middle East / Iraq · Conflict & Security

US military concludes mission and withdraws troops from Iraq

Rank
Ran: 44h
Updated: 3d ago
Final
Outlets: 54
Regions: 5
Countries: 37
Languages: 18

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: CGTN, 30 Sept, 07:21 UTC.
Second country: United Kingdom, with The Independent.
Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
Fastest hour: +9 outlets from 30 Sept, 17:37 UTC.
Last article: 54 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 37 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

41%16%24%13%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 4%
Americas 22 outlets · 12 countries · 41%
Asia-Pacific 9 outlets · 7 countries · 16%
Europe 13 outlets · 11 countries · 24%
Middle East 7 outlets · 4 countries · 13%
International 1 outlet · 2%

First movers

CGTN 30 Sept, 07:21 UTC
The Independent +12m
CNN Brasil +39m
The Japan Times +42m
NPR +1h 22m

Last to join

Le Monde 2 Oct, 04:00 UTC
The National 2 Oct, 02:00 UTC
Podrobno.uz 1 Oct, 13:35 UTC
Zambian Observer 1 Oct, 11:12 UTC
La Jornada 1 Oct, 09:27 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: US completes military withdrawal from Iraq after 12 years, 28 to 30 Sept 2026, 126 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 54 outlets in 37 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 54 outlets, 8 state-owned, 3 public-service, 43 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Egypt, Zambia. Americas 12: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, United States, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 7: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 11: Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom. Middle East 4: Iran, Qatar, 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, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Uzbek, Vietnamese.
Timeline: Earliest article CGTN, 30 Sept 2026, 07:21 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 07:40 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 04:00 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.
Chain: Continues US completes military withdrawal from Iraq after 12 years. Continued by U.S. Exit Leaves Iraq With a Militia Problem; The Iraq War Is Finally Over and It Wasn’t a Total Disaster; Irak - Abzug der US-Truppen: Was wird aus dem Land? Eine Reportage; Халқаро коалиция кучлари Ироқни тўлиқ тарк этди. 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

30 Sept 2026 12 41.80 41 30 41 30 4.0

1 Oct 2026 16 34.71 52 37 10 10 4.0

2 Oct 2026 105 9.88 54 37 3 3 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 07:40 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 04:00 UTC

Covered by 54 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
30 Sept 2026	12	41.80	41	30	41	30	4.0
1 Oct 2026	16	34.71	52	37	10	10	4.0
2 Oct 2026	105	9.88	54	37	3	3	4.0

Covered by 54 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 22 outlets

Asia-Pacific 9 outlets

Europe 13 outlets

Middle East 7 outlets

International 1 outlet