Entity

Mecca

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 15 coverage verticals, including Middle East, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

As of 27 Oct 2026Last evidence 27 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Saudi Arabia intercepts drones and missiles as fighting with Yemen's Houthis continues

    Reported event · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Turkish parliamentary committee approves Mecca defense pact with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Iran security chief meets Supreme Leader after talks with Mecca pact countries

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Mecca defense pact faces test as Saudi delegation arrives for high-stakes Iran talks - analysis

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Top officials from Mecca pact countries to meet Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday, two sources say

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

All 6 events and claims involving Mecca

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 56 mentions on 27 Oct 2026, against 22 on 6 Oct 2026 (+155%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 15 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 4 claims first reported since 26 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

621 documents · 84 publishers · 12% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 27 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.121: about 88% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 4 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Mecca

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.

Saudi ArabiaYemenIranPakistanRed SeaIsraelMiddle EastHormuz
  • Saudi Arabia · 555 shared documents
  • Yemen · 495 shared documents
  • Iran · 443 shared documents
  • Pakistan · 394 shared documents
  • Turkish · 384 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Red Sea · 271 shared documents
  • Israel · 266 shared documents
  • Middle East · 244 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 214 shared documents
  • Saudi-Led Coalition · 196 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 56 mentions on 27 Oct 2026 with 22 on 6 Oct 2026 (+155%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +833% from 12 Sept 2026 to 27 Oct 2026, between 4 and 72 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Mecca, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/5268fb935a9349f80bc21b67 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name mecca.

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

Events involving Mecca

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.

  • Saudi Arabia intercepts drones and missiles as fighting with Yemen's Houthis continues

    Reported event · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Saudi Arabia intercepts drones and missiles as fighting with Yemen's Houthis continues · corroborated · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 5 separate publishers
    • Saudi Arabia says it intercepted missiles and drones from Iran-backed Houthis · reported by two · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers

  • Turkish parliamentary committee approves Mecca defense pact with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iran security chief meets Supreme Leader after talks with Mecca pact countries

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    single source

  • Mecca defense pact faces test as Saudi delegation arrives for high-stakes Iran talks - analysis

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Top officials from Mecca pact countries to meet Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday, two sources say

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Turkey planning mandate to send military personnel to Saudi Arabia under Mecca pact, ruling party official says

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

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Mecca

Entity.

Evidence
621 documents · 84 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 3 Sept 2026, last seen 27 Oct 2026
Measured
12% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
27 Oct 2026
17 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (7)

  • 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 Mecca, 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.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 15 Oct 2026.

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