Entity

Yemen

A state on the Arabian Peninsula; its Houthi movement's attacks on Red Sea shipping give its long civil war global reach.

As of 16 Oct 2026Last evidence 15 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Houthi strike on Saudi airport kills 12, worst attack on kingdom in a decade

    Reported event · first reported 10 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia could be postponed by a year amid Houthi attacks

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Houthis attack presidential palace complex in Yemen's Aden, PM unharmed, officials say

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 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

  • 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 10 events and claims involving Yemen

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 113 mentions on 16 Oct 2026, against 127 on 25 Sept 2026 (-11%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 15 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 15 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,809 documents · 179 publishers · 27% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 15 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.265: about 74% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Yemen

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 ArabiaIranOilRed SeaHormuzMiddle EastIsrael
  • Saudi Arabia · 2,140 shared documents
  • Iran · 1,972 shared documents
  • Oil · 1,413 shared documents
  • Red Sea · 1,140 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 1,103 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,063 shared documents
  • Riyadh · 1,047 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Israel · 896 shared documents
  • UN · 645 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Iran-Backed Houthi · 515 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 113 mentions on 16 Oct 2026 with 127 on 25 Sept 2026 (-11%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +2160% from 2 Sept 2026 to 16 Oct 2026, between 5 and 232 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Yemen, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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

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/8c2229b018d63caa09228578 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name yemen.

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

Events involving Yemen

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 strike on Saudi airport kills 12, worst attack on kingdom in a decade

    Reported event · first reported 10 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    Show the 3 individual claims
    • Houthi strike on Saudi airport kills 12, worst attack on kingdom in a decade · corroborated · first reported 10 Oct 2026 · 5 separate publishers
    • Dastardly: India condemns Houthi strike on Riyadh airport that killed 12 · corroborated · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 5 separate publishers
    • Twelve killed and hundreds injured in Houthi attack at Riyadh airport · reported by two · first reported 10 Oct 2026 · 3 separate publishers

  • Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia could be postponed by a year amid Houthi attacks

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Houthis attack presidential palace complex in Yemen's Aden, PM unharmed, officials say

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • 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

  • 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 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-led coalition intercepts two Houthi ballistic missiles fired at Khamis Mushait, spokesperson says

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • At least 139 migrants dead, including some children, after boat from Djibouti to Yemen capsizes, UN agency says

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

    corroborated

  • Riyadh airport attack: Indian among those killed in strikes; Saudi vows tough action against Houthis

    Reported claim · first reported 10 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

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

    Reported claim · first reported 10 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 13 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Yemen

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Yemen

Entity.

Evidence
2,809 documents · 179 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 30 May 2026, last seen 15 Oct 2026
Measured
27% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
16 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 Yemen, 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 Yemen

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

2 more open markets joined to Yemen but not about it
  • 57.5% Yes

    “Houthi military action against Saudi Arabia on October 17?”

    Polymarket · priced 16 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 17 Oct 2026

  • 11.3% Yes

    “Perim Island no longer under Houthi control by October 31?”

    Polymarket · priced 16 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

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 15 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 12 Oct 2026

  • 15 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 12 Oct 2026

  • 12 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 27 Sept 2026

  • 12 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 27 Sept 2026

4 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about YemenWatch Yemen

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 16 Oct 2026.