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 13 Oct 2026

What is happening now

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

    Reported event · first reported 7 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026 · 5 claims · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

  • Saudi-led coalition says a projectile has struck a passenger terminal at the airport in Riyadh

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

  • Saudi-led coalition destroys three Houthi missile launchers, releases video

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • Saudi minister vows 'serious response' to Houthi attacks on airports

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

All 8 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 3 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

2,578 documents · 176 publishers · 50% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 13 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.497: about 50% 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 ArabiaIranOilRed SeaHormuzMiddle EastRiyadhIsrael
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,949 shared documents
  • Iran · 1,819 shared documents
  • Oil · 1,290 shared documents
  • Red Sea · 1,084 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 1,043 shared documents
  • Middle East · 1,004 shared documents
  • Riyadh · 916 shared documents
  • Israel · 838 shared documents
  • UN · 618 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Iran-Backed Houthi · 476 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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  "label": "Yemen",
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  "domains": 34,
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    "schema": "sb.node.v1",
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-12T23:35:20.359582+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,
    "pricedOn": "2026-10-12",
    "attribution": "the market's own price",
    "relation": "actor-in"
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "232 mentions across 34 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
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        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "34 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 18,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "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 Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and Türkiye demand end to Houthi attacks as deadly strikes hit Riyadh airport

    Reported event · first reported 7 Oct 2026 to 11 Oct 2026 · 5 claims · best-carried claim: 11 separate publishers

    Show the 5 individual claims
    • Saudi Arabia evacuates and closes Riyadh airport after missile attack by Yemen’s Houthis · corroborated · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 10 separate publishers
    • Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and Türkiye demand end to Houthi attacks as deadly strikes hit Riyadh airport · corroborated · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 11 separate publishers
    • Three Saudi nationals killed in attacks on Riyadh airport, aviation authority says · corroborated · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 9 separate publishers
    • Houthi rebels claim latest attacks on Riyadh airport, following Saturday's deadly strike · corroborated · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 5 separate publishers
    • Houthi strike on Saudi airport kills 12, worst attack on kingdom in a decade · corroborated · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 5 separate publishers

  • Saudi-led coalition says a projectile has struck a passenger terminal at the airport in Riyadh

    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

  • Saudi-led coalition destroys three Houthi missile launchers, releases video

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Saudi minister vows 'serious response' to Houthi attacks on airports

    Reported claim · first reported 9 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 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: 6 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

  • Saudi Arabia says Houthi attacks on airports killed three foreign nationals

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 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
2,578 documents · 176 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 13 Oct 2026
Measured
50% 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.