Entity

Iraq

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 23 coverage verticals, including Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

As of 28 Oct 2026Last evidence 28 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Iraqi court sentences six French men to life in prison for Islamic State membership

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Tehran strikes Iranian Kurdish base in Iraq with drones, Iranian media says

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Central Bank of Turkey Cuts Interest Rate to 36% Amid Declining Inflation » Iraqi News Agency

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 12 separate publishers

All 3 events and claims involving Iraq

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 72 mentions on 28 Oct 2026, against 43 on 7 Oct 2026 (+67%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 16 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 27 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,626 documents · 188 publishers · 6% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 28 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.057: about 94% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Iraq

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

IranOilSaudi ArabiaHormuzMiddle EastTrumpUnited StatesIsraelYemen
  • Iran · 1,126 shared documents
  • Oil · 756 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 695 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 688 shared documents
  • Middle East · 660 shared documents
  • Trump · 653 shared documents
  • United States · 641 shared documents
  • Israel · 638 shared documents
  • Yemen · 541 shared documents
  • Turkish · 418 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 72 mentions on 28 Oct 2026 with 43 on 7 Oct 2026 (+67%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +7% from 13 Sept 2026 to 28 Oct 2026, between 31 and 77 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Iraq, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Iraq yet. Ask about Iraq

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/34f6ee721f099cc3220ffd90 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name iraq.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Iraq

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Iraqi court sentences six French men to life in prison for Islamic State membership

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Tehran strikes Iranian Kurdish base in Iraq with drones, Iranian media says

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Central Bank of Turkey Cuts Interest Rate to 36% Amid Declining Inflation » Iraqi News Agency

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 12 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from Iraq

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Iraq

Entity.

Evidence
1,626 documents · 188 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 2 Sept 2026, last seen 28 Oct 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
28 Oct 2026
13 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (3)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Iraq, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Markets materially about Iraq

Markets whose question is about Iraq or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Iraq and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 16 Oct 2026.

Ask about IraqWatch Iraq

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 28 Oct 2026.