Entity

Syria

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 2 coverage verticals, including World Wires and Business.

As of 23 Oct 2026Last evidence 23 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • 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

  • Israeli forces advance into Syria's Quneitra province, Al Jazeera reports

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 2 events and claims involving Syria

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 38 mentions on 22 Oct 2026, against 21 on 1 Oct 2026 (+81%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 13 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 22 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,109 documents · 174 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 23 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.067: about 93% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Syria

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.

IranIsraelMiddle EastGazaIraqImmigrationSaudi ArabiaYemenLebanon
  • Iran · 451 shared documents
  • Israel · 435 shared documents
  • Turkish · 374 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Middle East · 292 shared documents
  • Gaza · 288 shared documents
  • Iraq · 287 shared documents
  • Immigration · 285 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 277 shared documents
  • Yemen · 252 shared documents
  • Lebanon · 246 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 38 mentions on 22 Oct 2026 with 21 on 1 Oct 2026 (+81%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +153% from 8 Sept 2026 to 22 Oct 2026, between 10 and 69 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Syria, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/4c60d8160270629d6f570cfc returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name syria.

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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-23T16:02:04.425259+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "history": {
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    "changes": 0
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  "whereFrom": {
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    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
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      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "2 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 2,
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 171 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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

Events involving Syria

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.

  • 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

  • Israeli forces advance into Syria's Quneitra province, Al Jazeera reports

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

Walk the record from Syria

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Syria

Entity.

Evidence
1,109 documents · 174 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 23 Oct 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
23 Oct 2026
12 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (2)

  • 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

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Syria, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Markets materially about Syria

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

What it connects to

Related records.

Pull a thread

Recorded history

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

Ask about SyriaWatch Syria

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 23 Oct 2026.