Entity

Saudi Arabia

The world's largest oil exporter and the dominant power in OPEC.

As of 18 Oct 2026Last evidence 17 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia show the Yemeni rebels' growing strength

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Major International Sports Events Postponed in Saudi Arabia over Houthi Attacks

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

  • Houthi missile launched towards Riyadh destroyed: Saudi-led Coalition says

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • IMF warns attacks on Saudi Arabia could hurt global economy after strike on Aramco headquarters

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Yemen's Houthis vow more attacks on Saudi airports, oil facilities after Aramco HQ hit

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving Saudi Arabia

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 170 mentions on 18 Oct 2026, against 116 on 27 Sept 2026 (+47%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 8 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 17 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Israel and Saudi Arabia normalize relations before 2027?” moved from 10% to 4% Yes since 3 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

4,415 documents · 318 publishers · 20% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 17 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.201: about 80% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Saudi Arabia

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.

IranYemenOilMiddle EastHormuzIsraelTrumpRed SeaUnited StatesUnited Arab Emi…

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 170 mentions on 18 Oct 2026 with 116 on 27 Sept 2026 (+47%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +2025% from 3 Sept 2026 to 18 Oct 2026, between 7 and 248 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Saudi Arabia, day by day.

Market price, cited

4% Yes

priced 6 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 10% → 4% Yes (-6pts, from 8 Sept 2026 to 6 Oct 2026)

on “Israel and Saudi Arabia normalize relations before 2027?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Saudi Arabia

“Israel and Saudi Arabia normalize relations before 2027?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/de202050c7ebf37c92c387ab returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name saudi arabia.

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

Events involving Saudi Arabia

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.

  • Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia show the Yemeni rebels' growing strength

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Major International Sports Events Postponed in Saudi Arabia over Houthi Attacks

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Houthi missile launched towards Riyadh destroyed: Saudi-led Coalition says

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • IMF warns attacks on Saudi Arabia could hurt global economy after strike on Aramco headquarters

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Yemen's Houthis vow more attacks on Saudi airports, oil facilities after Aramco HQ hit

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Saudi OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting $14 recording device in company office

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iraq’s Zaidi, Saudi crown prince discuss security as Houthi attacks escalate

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

    corroborated

  • Saudi Arabia strikes oil depots in Yemen as conflict with Houthis escalates

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Saudi energy minister says attacks testing infrastructure, vows 'serious' response

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Saudi Arabia probes air defence failure after Houthi attack on Riyadh airport kills 13

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Saudi Arabia flights update: Over 15 airlines suspend, cancel services amid Houthi attacks; affected routes

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and Türkiye demand end to Houthi attacks as deadly strikes hit Riyadh airport

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Saudi Arabia

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Saudi Arabia

Entity.

Evidence
4,415 documents · 318 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 11 May 2026, last seen 17 Oct 2026
Measured
20% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
18 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.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Saudi Arabia, 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.

Other markets materially about Saudi Arabia

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

1 more open market joined to Saudi Arabia but not about it
  • 9% Yes

    “Saudi-Houthi ceasefire agreement announced by October 31?”

    Polymarket · priced 18 Oct 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · closes 31 Oct 2026

1 market past its stated close date is not shown as open: “Houthi military action against Saudi Arabia on October 17?” (closed 17 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

Pull a thread

Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 8 Oct 2026.

Ask about Saudi ArabiaWatch Saudi Arabia

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 18 Oct 2026.