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 9 Oct 2026Last evidence 9 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Philippine Airlines cancels flights to Riyadh following Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

    Reported event · first reported 6 Oct 2026 to 8 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Riyadh airport issues travel alert as Yemen's Houthis claim fresh attack on Saudi Arabia

    Reported event · first reported 4 Oct 2026 to 5 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

  • Opposition warns defending Saudi Arabia could drag Turkey into Yemen war

    Reported event · first reported 3 Oct 2026 to 5 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

  • Houthis claim missile strike on Riyadh airport as explosions heard in Saudi capital

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 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: 4 separate publishers

All 9 events and claims involving Yemen

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 107 mentions on 9 Oct 2026, against 116 on 18 Sept 2026 (-8%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Yemen yet.
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 8 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,137 documents · 165 publishers · 46% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 9 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.462: about 54% 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 ArabiaIranRed SeaHormuzMiddle EastIsraelTrumpRiyadh
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,593 shared documents
  • Iran · 1,550 shared documents
  • Oil · 1,129 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Red Sea · 977 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 932 shared documents
  • Middle East · 880 shared documents
  • Israel · 736 shared documents
  • Trump · 707 shared documents
  • Riyadh · 636 shared documents
  • UN · 526 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +3467% from 25 Aug 2026 to 9 Oct 2026, between 3 and 149 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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  "label": "Yemen",
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  "outlets": 87,
  "domains": 6,
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    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-09T19:01:08.010113+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
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  "coverageTrend": "rising",
  "whereFrom": {
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    "label": "791 mentions across 6 domains",
    "children": [
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      {
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      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 785 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.

  • Philippine Airlines cancels flights to Riyadh following Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia

    Reported event · first reported 6 Oct 2026 to 8 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Philippine Airlines cancels flights to Riyadh following Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia · corroborated · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 3 separate publishers
    • Lufthansa and Air India suspend flights to Riyadh airport after Houthi attacks · corroborated · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 3 separate publishers

  • Riyadh airport issues travel alert as Yemen's Houthis claim fresh attack on Saudi Arabia

    Reported event · first reported 4 Oct 2026 to 5 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Riyadh airport issues travel alert as Yemen's Houthis claim fresh attack on Saudi Arabia · corroborated · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 8 separate publishers
    • A Saudi-led coalition says its fighter jets are bombing Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels · corroborated · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 5 separate publishers

  • Opposition warns defending Saudi Arabia could drag Turkey into Yemen war

    Reported event · first reported 3 Oct 2026 to 5 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey defense pact faces first test in Houthi offensive - analysis · corroborated · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 7 separate publishers
    • Opposition warns defending Saudi Arabia could drag Turkey into Yemen war · corroborated · first reported 3 Oct 2026 · 7 separate publishers

  • Houthis claim missile strike on Riyadh airport as explosions heard in Saudi capital

    Reported claim · first reported 8 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 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: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye move to deploy forces in Gulf country amid Houthi attacks

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

    corroborated

  • Saudi-backed Yemeni forces expel Houthi rebels from several areas around key strait, officials say

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

    corroborated

  • Yemen leader announces major military operations against Iran-backed Houthis

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Yemen's armed forces say it is conducting strikes against Houthis in Sanaa

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 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
2,137 documents · 165 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 9 Oct 2026
Measured
46% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
9 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.

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.

1 more open market joined to Yemen but not about it
  • 31.5% Yes

    “Perim Island no longer under Houthi control by November 30?”

    Polymarket · priced 9 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 30 Nov 2026

What it connects to

Related records.

Pull a thread

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 9 Oct 2026.