Entity

Iraq

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 4 domains, including World Wires, Water and US Politics.

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 8 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Iraq Moves 2 Million Barrels Of Crude Beyond Strait Of Hormuz In First Such Operation In Decades

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Despite US sanctions on Iranian flights, up to forty a day may still fly to Iraq’s Najaf - analysis

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • New Wave Offshore Energy awarded marine warranty survey contract for TotalEnergies-led AGUP Phase 2 project in southern Iraq

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

  • Middle East oil exports top pre-war levels in September, but tanker attacks increase

    Reported claim · first reported 1 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

  • IRGC hails US withdrawal 'victory,' Iraq sets new deadline to disarm

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

All 12 events and claims involving Iraq

What changed

  • Attention Iraq has 137 mentions in tracked coverage: too few to measure a trend.
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Iraq yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 7 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,094 documents · 157 publishers · 35% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 8 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.353: about 65% 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.

IranOilHormuzTrumpSaudi ArabiaMiddle EastUnited StatesIsraelYemenRed Sea

Iraq has 137 mentions in tracked coverage. That is too few to measure a trend. Watch Iraq to hear when coverage grows, or request deeper coverage of Iraq.

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.

  • Iraq Moves 2 Million Barrels Of Crude Beyond Strait Of Hormuz In First Such Operation In Decades

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Despite US sanctions on Iranian flights, up to forty a day may still fly to Iraq’s Najaf - analysis

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • New Wave Offshore Energy awarded marine warranty survey contract for TotalEnergies-led AGUP Phase 2 project in southern Iraq

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

    single source

  • Middle East oil exports top pre-war levels in September, but tanker attacks increase

    Reported claim · first reported 1 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • IRGC hails US withdrawal 'victory,' Iraq sets new deadline to disarm

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

    single source

  • Iran says it receives US response to latest proposal as Washington pulls out of Iraq

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Watch: Iraq says security forces ready as US-led coalition mission ends

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • The US military says its withdrawal of troops from Iraq is complete

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iran welcomes exit of US forces from Iraq, calls for Washington to be held accountable

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Explainer-How the US controls Iraq's oil revenues

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Exclusive-US to grant sanctions waiver for flights between Iran and Iraq's Najaf, source says

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Iraqi airports halt Iranian flights after new US aviation sanctions

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Sept 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Iraq

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Iraq

Entity.

Evidence
1,094 documents · 157 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 8 Oct 2026
Measured
35% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
22 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (12)

  • 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. Sparse topics can mix unrelated senses of the word.

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 September 30, 2026?” (closed 30 Sept 2026).

Ask about IraqWatch Iraq

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