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 12 Oct 2026Last evidence 12 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Saudi-led coalition says new attack at Riyadh airport causes fire, day after strike kills 12

    Reported event · first reported 6 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026 · 8 claims · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

  • 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: 8 separate publishers

  • Two Saudi airports targeted on Monday as fighting with Yemen's Houthis escalates

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Saudi envoy says allied Yemeni forces capture Bab el Mandeb strait from Houthis: What to know

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • At least one plane severely damaged as Houthis claim third Riyadh airport attack

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

All 5 events and claims involving Yemen

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 232 mentions on 12 Oct 2026, against 121 on 21 Sept 2026 (+92%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Yemen yet.
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 11 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “US x Yemen ceasefire continues through October 15?” moved from 82% to 92% Yes since 2 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

2,415 documents · 174 publishers · 49% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 12 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.487: about 51% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts 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 EastIsraelRiyadh
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,818 shared documents
  • Iran · 1,716 shared documents
  • Oil · 1,219 shared documents
  • Red Sea · 1,061 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 1,000 shared documents
  • Middle East · 954 shared documents
  • Israel · 804 shared documents
  • Riyadh · 801 shared documents
  • UN · 593 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Mandeb Strait · 455 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +4540% from 2 Sept 2026 to 12 Oct 2026, between 5 and 232 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Yemen, day by day.

Market price, cited

92% Yes

Polymarket · priced 12 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 82% → 92% Yes (+10pts, from 10 Oct 2026 to 12 Oct 2026)

on “US x Yemen ceasefire continues through October 15?”

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

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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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-12T19:05:00.007637+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "marketPrice": {
    "question": "US x Yemen ceasefire continues through October 15?",
    "yesPct": 92,
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    "relation": "actor-in"
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  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
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    "children": [
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      },
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        "children": {
          "count": 18,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
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        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 226 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 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.

  • Saudi-led coalition says new attack at Riyadh airport causes fire, day after strike kills 12

    Reported event · first reported 6 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026 · 8 claims · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

    Show the 8 individual claims
    • Saudi-led coalition says new attack at Riyadh airport causes fire, day after strike kills 12 · corroborated · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 11 separate publishers
    • Saudi Arabia evacuates and closes Riyadh airport after missile attack by Yemen’s Houthis · corroborated · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 10 separate publishers
    • Dastardly: India condemns Houthi strike on Riyadh airport that killed 12 · corroborated · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 6 separate publishers
    • Saudi Arabia says Houthi attacks on airports killed three foreign nationals · corroborated · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 6 separate publishers
    • Saudi-led coalition says a projectile has struck a passenger terminal at the airport in Riyadh · corroborated · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 4 separate publishers
    • Philippine Airlines cancels flights to Riyadh following Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia · corroborated · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 4 separate publishers
    • Saudi Arabia faces new level of peril in Houthi attacks, amid wider Iran war · corroborated · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 4 separate publishers
    • Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says it destroyed 2 missiles launched towards Riyadh · corroborated · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 3 separate publishers

  • 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: 8 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Two Saudi airports targeted on Monday as fighting with Yemen's Houthis escalates

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Saudi envoy says allied Yemeni forces capture Bab el Mandeb strait from Houthis: What to know

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • At least one plane severely damaged as Houthis claim third Riyadh airport attack

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Yemen

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.

Yemen

Entity.

Evidence
2,415 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 30 May 2026, last seen 12 Oct 2026
Measured
49% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
12 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.

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.

Other 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.

What it connects to

Related records.

Pull a thread

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 12 Oct 2026.