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 Yemen has 785 mentions in tracked coverage: too few to measure a trend.
  • 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 ArabiaIranOilRed SeaHormuzMiddle EastIsraelTrumpRiyadh
  • Saudi Arabia · 1,593 shared documents
  • Iran · 1,550 shared documents
  • Oil · 1,129 shared documents
  • 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

Yemen has 785 mentions in tracked coverage. That is too few to measure a trend. Watch Yemen to hear when coverage grows, or request deeper coverage of Yemen.

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.

  • 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

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Yemen, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article. Sparse topics can mix unrelated senses of the word.

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
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 9 Oct 2026.