Entity

Middle East

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 9 coverage verticals, including World Wires, Water and Logistics.

As of 14 Oct 2026Last evidence 14 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • IMF Raised Global Growth Forecast By 0.1% To 3.1% On AI Boom Offsetting Middle East Conflict

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Middle East and Central Asia’s economy to shrink in 2026 amid war, IMF says

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Middle East crisis live: Houthis warn passengers against using Saudi airport after deadly attack on Riyadh

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Middle East War and Global Debt Crisis Set to Dominate IMF-World Bank Meetings in Bangkok

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

  • Egyptian President Concludes Malaysia Visit, Discusses Middle East Conflict

    Reported claim · first reported 10 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving Middle East

What changed

  • Attention Steady: 250 mentions on 14 Oct 2026, against 266 on 23 Sept 2026 (-6%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 4 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 13 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

5,614 documents · 407 publishers · 4% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 14 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.044: about 96% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 7 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Middle East

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.

IranOilTrumpIsraelHormuzSaudi ArabiaUnited StatesChinaYemen
  • Iran · 2,662 shared documents
  • Oil · 2,272 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,560 shared documents
  • Israel · 1,559 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 1,500 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,417 shared documents
  • Europe · 1,342 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 1,331 shared documents
  • China · 1,179 shared documents
  • Yemen · 1,033 shared documents

Story momentum

Steady

The word compares 250 mentions on 14 Oct 2026 with 266 on 23 Sept 2026 (-6%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +495% from 30 Aug 2026 to 14 Oct 2026, between 15 and 270 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Middle East, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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For developers

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Events involving Middle East

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.

  • IMF Raised Global Growth Forecast By 0.1% To 3.1% On AI Boom Offsetting Middle East Conflict

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    single source

  • Middle East and Central Asia’s economy to shrink in 2026 amid war, IMF says

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Middle East crisis live: Houthis warn passengers against using Saudi airport after deadly attack on Riyadh

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Middle East War and Global Debt Crisis Set to Dominate IMF-World Bank Meetings in Bangkok

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Egyptian President Concludes Malaysia Visit, Discusses Middle East Conflict

    Reported claim · first reported 10 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    single source

  • US-MEPI Tomorrow’s Leaders Program 2027/2028 for undergraduate & graduate Students from the Middle East and North Africa (Fully Funded)

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Sensex, Nifty start muted as inflation, oil prices and Middle East tensions weigh

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • OpenAI Hires Ismail Elmas From SpaceX to Lead Sales in Europe, Middle East and Africa

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Shipping group Maersk raises UK, Ireland inland emergency fuel surcharge due to Middle East conflict

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Oil Prices Rise as Attacks on Saudi Arabia and Middle East Tankers Renew Global Supply Concerns

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

    single source

  • Putin offers help to Iran to end Middle East war ahead of CIS summit | Hindustan Times

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 12 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • WTO raises merchandise trade growth forecast to 3.9% as AI boom offsets hit from Middle East

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    could not check

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Middle East

Entity.

Evidence
5,614 documents · 407 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 26 Mar 2026, last seen 14 Oct 2026
Measured
4% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
14 Oct 2026
24 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.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (2)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Middle East, 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

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 4 Oct 2026.

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