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 21 Oct 2026Last evidence 21 Oct 2026

What is happening now

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

    Reported event · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Blasts heard in Riyadh despite Saudi interception of Houthi missiles

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • More than 250,000 internally displaced in Yemen since fighting resumed: UN

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Financial Times: Saudi Arabia postpones in-person 'Davos in the Desert' amid Houthi attacks

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Houthi attack kills 53 at Yemen government training camp, officials say

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 11 events and claims involving Yemen

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 126 mentions on 21 Oct 2026, against 60 on 29 Sept 2026 (+110%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 15 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 11 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 20 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

3,244 documents · 195 publishers · 26% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 21 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.264: about 74% of mentions carry no typed assertion

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 ArabiaIranOilHormuzRed SeaMiddle EastTrumpIsrael
  • Saudi Arabia · 2,540 shared documents
  • Iran · 2,277 shared documents
  • Oil · 1,619 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 1,271 shared documents
  • Red Sea · 1,266 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,219 shared documents
  • Trump · 1,077 shared documents
  • Israel · 1,045 shared documents
  • UN · 740 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Iran-Backed Houthi · 565 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 126 mentions on 21 Oct 2026 with 60 on 29 Sept 2026 (+110%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +1700% from 6 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026, between 7 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

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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.

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

    Reported event · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Houthis attack presidential palace complex in Yemen's Aden, PM unharmed, officials say · corroborated · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 5 separate publishers
    • Yemen's Houthis hit palace in Aden, coalition details attacks on Saudi infrastructure · reported by two · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 3 separate publishers

  • Blasts heard in Riyadh despite Saudi interception of Houthi missiles

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • More than 250,000 internally displaced in Yemen since fighting resumed: UN

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Financial Times: Saudi Arabia postpones in-person 'Davos in the Desert' amid Houthi attacks

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Houthi attack kills 53 at Yemen government training camp, officials say

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • How could Israel help Saudi Arabia defend against the Houthis - and at what cost? - analysis

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • UK to send jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks, and other Mideast news

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 9 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • 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

  • Houthis deny targeting holy city of Medina after Saudi Arabia says it intercepted missile

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Houthis say no attacks against Saudi Arabia conducted today, after coalition forces report missile downed

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 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

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Yemen

Entity.

Evidence
3,244 documents · 195 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 21 Oct 2026
Measured
26% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
21 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.

No open market in the record is materially about Yemen: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

3 more open markets joined to Yemen but not about it
  • 40% Yes

    “Will there be Houthi military action against Israel by December 31, 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 21 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 Dec 2026

  • 21.5% Yes

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

    Polymarket · priced 21 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 Dec 2026

  • 30.5% Yes

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

    Polymarket · priced 21 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 Dec 2026

What it connects to

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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 11 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 21 Oct 2026.