Entity

Iraq

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 20 coverage verticals, including Saudi Arabia, Middle East and Intelligence.

As of 24 Oct 2026Last evidence 24 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • 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: 19 separate publishers

  • Iraq closes Sheeb border crossing with Iran to review security, sources say

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Turkey troops to stay in Syria, Iraq 'until border security ensured', defence minister tells AFP

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 3 events and claims involving Iraq

What changed

  • Attention Steady: 65 mentions on 24 Oct 2026, against 63 on 3 Oct 2026 (+3%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 13 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 23 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,510 documents · 180 publishers · 6% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 24 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.058: about 94% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts 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 EastTrumpIsraelUnited StatesYemen
  • Iran · 1,044 shared documents
  • Oil · 708 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 641 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 635 shared documents
  • Middle East · 614 shared documents
  • Trump · 611 shared documents
  • Israel · 592 shared documents
  • United States · 591 shared documents
  • Yemen · 497 shared documents
  • Turkish · 382 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Steady

The word compares 65 mentions on 24 Oct 2026 with 63 on 3 Oct 2026 (+3%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +71% from 9 Sept 2026 to 24 Oct 2026, between 16 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

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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.

  • 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: 19 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iraq closes Sheeb border crossing with Iran to review security, sources say

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Turkey troops to stay in Syria, Iraq 'until border security ensured', defence minister tells AFP

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

Walk the record from Iraq

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Iraq

Entity.

Evidence
1,510 documents · 180 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 24 Oct 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
24 Oct 2026
13 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (3)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • 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.

1 more headline counted but not shown: no source link on file

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.

No open market in the record is materially about Iraq: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

1 market past its stated close date is not shown as open: “Will Iran target Iraq by October 22, 2026?” (closed 22 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 13 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 24 Oct 2026.