Entity

Syria

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

As of 18 Oct 2026Last evidence 16 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Chief suspect in 2013 Türkiye's Reyhanlı attack caught fleeing in Syria

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 1 event and claims involving Syria

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 44 mentions on 18 Oct 2026, against 15 on 27 Sept 2026 (+193%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 8 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 17 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

972 documents · 164 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 16 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.072: 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 ArabiaYemen
  • Iran · 391 shared documents
  • Israel · 372 shared documents
  • Turkish · 318 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Middle East · 252 shared documents
  • Gaza · 250 shared documents
  • Iraq · 244 shared documents
  • Immigration · 243 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 235 shared documents
  • UN · 215 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Yemen · 212 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 44 mentions on 18 Oct 2026 with 15 on 27 Sept 2026 (+193%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +633% from 3 Sept 2026 to 18 Oct 2026, between 6 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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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
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  "whereFrom": {
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        "level": "reports",
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      },
      {
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        "children": {
          "count": 2,
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 160 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
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  }
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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.

  • Chief suspect in 2013 Türkiye's Reyhanlı attack caught fleeing in Syria

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

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
972 documents · 164 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 16 Oct 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
18 Oct 2026
11 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (1)

  • 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 Syria, 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.

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 8 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 18 Oct 2026.