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Shargh says a US drone was destroyed "over the Strait of Hormuz"; LBCI, citing Reuters, says over Bandar Abbas, and no American confirmation

Two reports, both tracing back to one Iranian army statement, put the same MQ-1 in two different places. Neither carries an American source.

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No photograph was published with any report we hold on this story. The mark is LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)’s.
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One drone, two places. Shargh, a Tehran daily, reports that an MQ-1 was "identified and targeted" over the Strait of Hormuz by the south-eastern air defence forces of the Iranian army. LBCI in Lebanon carries Reuters carrying Iranian state media carrying the army — and puts the drone over Bandar Abbas.

The gap is in one headline. LBCI's headline ends by saying that no American confirmation has been issued. Shargh names no source at all, and its headline says the drone was destroyed where its own sentence says only that it was targeted.

Shargh LBCI, citing Reuters
Where over the Strait of Hormuz over Bandar Abbas
Who it credits no source named Iranian state media, citing the army
What became of the drone "destroyed" in the headline, "targeted" in the text shot down
American word not mentioned none issued

Two reports are not two observations. Both accounts come from the Iranian military. The distance between the strait and the port is a difference in the telling, not two sightings.

Not settled. Whether an American drone was hit at all. Where, if it was. Whether the United States lost an aircraft. We hold no American account of this and no independent one, and no report we hold quotes anyone outside Iran's armed forces.

What this is about: Iran's army says it hit an American drone near the Strait of Hormuz. The United States has not said whether it lost one.

The place. The Strait of Hormuz is the narrow sea lane between Iran and Oman. It links the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's main routes for oil and gas. Bandar Abbas is Iran's main port on the strait and a base for its navy. The two places named in the reports are close, but one is a sea lane and the other is an Iranian city.

How it got here. - 1979: Iran's revolution ended its alliance with Washington. The two have had no diplomatic relations since 1980. - 2018: The United States left the 2015 nuclear deal and brought back sanctions. - June 2019: Iran shot down a US Navy Global Hawk drone near the strait. Iran said it was over Iranian territory. Washington said it was over international waters. That dispute was never settled. - 7 October 2023: Hamas attacked Israel, and war in Gaza followed. Iran and Israel then attacked each other directly for the first time, in April and October 2024. - June 2025: Israel and Iran fought a 12-day war. The United States bombed Iranian nuclear sites during it. - This month: our earlier coverage carried Israeli operations in south Lebanon and a Saudi account of fighting with Yemen's Houthis.

The actors. - Iran's regular army (the Artesh) runs part of the country's air defence. It is separate from the Revolutionary Guard. - The United States keeps naval and air forces in the Gulf. Its Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain. - MQ-1 is the Predator family of drones. The US Air Force retired the Predator in 2018. The US Army flies a descendant, the MQ-1C Gray Eagle.

What is at stake. In 2019 a drone shot down over this water took the two countries close to open conflict. A confirmed shootdown would raise the risk again. A shootdown that is never confirmed would still show what Iran's military wants people to believe.

Where it stands. The only account comes from Iran's army. We hold no American or independent report.

The story so far

Earlier stories The AI Times filed on this thread.

What is being argued about

  • Where the drone is said to have been hit — the strait, or the port of Bandar Abbas
  • One military statement, relayed two ways
  • The absence of any American account
The same claim, told two waysSide by side
OutletWhereWho it creditsWhat became of the droneAmerican word
Shargh (Tehran)over the Strait of Hormuzno source named"destroyed" in the headline, "targeted" in the textnot mentioned
LBCI (Beirut), citing Reutersover Bandar AbbasIranian state media, citing the armyshot downnone issued
Both accounts trace to the same Iranian military statement.
Sources Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent شناسایی و انهدام پهپاد آمریکایی بر فراز تنگه هرمز Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent رويترز: وسائل إعلام رسمية إيرانية تنقل عن الجيش أنه أسقط مسيرة أميركية فوق بندر عباس ولم يصدر تأكيد أميركي Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The two places namedMap optional section
Bandar Abbas Strait of Hormuz
Bandar Abbas — 27.19, 56.28 → where LBCI, citing Reuters and Iranian state media, says it was shot down
Strait of Hormuz — 26.57, 56.25 → where Shargh says the drone was identified and targeted
Map data: Natural Earth.
Neither location is established by any report we hold; both come from the same Iranian military account.
Sources Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent شناسایی و انهدام پهپاد آمریکایی بر فراز تنگه هرمز Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent رويترز: وسائل إعلام رسمية إيرانية تنقل عن الجيش أنه أسقط مسيرة أميركية فوق بندر عباس ولم يصدر تأكيد أميركي Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
The bias in this coverageBias

One claim, one source, two places

Both reports we hold trace to the same Iranian military account. One states it flat and names the strait; the other keeps the chain of attribution visible, places it over Bandar Abbas, and says the United States has not confirmed it. No American source is quoted in either.

2 reports we hold on this 1 reports saying the United States has not confirmed it 0 reports quoting any American source
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent رويترز: وسائل إعلام رسمية إيرانية تنقل عن الجيش أنه أسقط مسيرة أميركية فوق بندر عباس ولم يصدر تأكيد أميركي Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent شناسایی و انهدام پهپاد آمریکایی بر فراز تنگه هرمز Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Claims and verdicts

unverified Iran's air defences shot down an American MQ-1 drone over the Strait of Hormuz.
Shargh reports the army's south-east air defence identifying and hitting the drone, and LBCI carries Reuters relaying the same Iranian state-media account — one source, the Iranian military. No independent account is in any report we hold.
Checked against 2 sources:
Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent شناسایی و انهدام پهپاد آمریکایی بر فراز تنگه هرمز Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent رويترز: وسائل إعلام رسمية إيرانية تنقل عن الجيش أنه أسقط مسيرة أميركية فوق بندر عباس ولم يصدر تأكيد أميركي Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
false The United States has confirmed the loss of a drone.
LBCI, citing Reuters, states explicitly that no American confirmation was issued. No report we hold carries any US statement on the incident.
Checked against 1 source:
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent رويترز: وسائل إعلام رسمية إيرانية تنقل عن الجيش أنه أسقط مسيرة أميركية فوق بندر عباس ولم يصدر تأكيد أميركي Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
false The two reports place the shoot-down in the same spot.
Shargh puts it over the Strait of Hormuz; LBCI, citing Reuters and Iranian state media, puts it over Bandar Abbas. Both trace to Iranian military statements, so the difference is in the telling, not in two observations.
Checked against 2 sources:
Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent شناسایی و انهدام پهپاد آمریکایی بر فراز تنگه هرمز Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent رويترز: وسائل إعلام رسمية إيرانية تنقل عن الجيش أنه أسقط مسيرة أميركية فوق بندر عباس ولم يصدر تأكيد أميركي Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →

Who wrote it

2 reports we hold carry no byline — we do not invent one.

Coverage, outlet by outlet

LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
Centre estimate · not a score
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent رويترز: وسائل إعلام رسمية إيرانية تنقل عن الجيش أنه أسقط مسيرة أميركية فوق بندر عباس ولم يصدر تأكيد أميركي Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → What we have measured Active voice, actor named the Israeli army carried out the detonation ×1Actor framing Tehran calls the meeting. Iraq is the only other state named. ×1Actor left unnamed the strike in Iraqi waters has no one named as firing it — the source is "unknown" ×1Actor named names Israel as the one striking ×1 from 8159 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
Keeps every link of the chain visible — Reuters, Iranian state media, the army — places the drone over Bandar Abbas rather than the strait, and is the only report we hold saying no American confirmation has been issued.
What is hedged and what is stated flat: the claim is hedged twice over — state media citing the army — and the absence of American confirmation is in the headline — “وسائل إعلام رسمية إيرانية تنقل عن الجيش أنه أسقط مسيرة أميركية فوق بندر عباس ولم يصدر تأكيد أميركي”
The gap named in the headline: state media, via the army, and no American word — “وسائل إعلام رسمية إيرانية تنقل عن الجيش أنه أسقط مسيرة أميركية فوق بندر عباس ولم يصدر تأكيد أميركي”
Read it at LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International) → https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/latest-news/956455/title/ar?src=rss&utm_so…
Shargh
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Shargh 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · independent شناسایی و انهدام پهپاد آمریکایی بر فراز تنگه هرمز Open this report in The AI Times → Read it at Shargh → What we have measured A count with its base both days given, and the data called preliminary ×1Actor named as a state the attack is Yemen's, not the Houthis' ×1A different actor does the asking Pakistan's army chief, not Beijing, is the one asking Tehran to use its influence, on the word of unnamed Pakistani government sources. ×1'aggression' in the narration The US campaign is called aggression in the report's own narration, which it credits to Al-Ahram's account of the call. ×1 from 10199 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → — independent
Names the aircraft — an MQ-1 — and puts it over the Strait of Hormuz. States the shoot-down flat, with no source named, and credits the "alertness" of the army's south-eastern air defence. Its headline says destroyed
اقتصادی ۱۷ شهریور ۱۴۰۵ ۱۶:۳۶ شناسایی و انهدام پهپاد آمریکایی بر فراز تنگه هرمز یک فروند پهپاد MQ-۱ بر فراز منطقه راهبردی تنگه هرمز با هوشیاری نیروهای پدافند هوایی جنوب شرق ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران شناسایی و هدف قرار گرفت. به گزارش گروه رسانه‌ای شرق، دلیرمردان پدافند هوایی جنوب شرق ارتش یک فروند پهپاد MQ-۱ را بر فراز تنگه هرمز شناسایی، رهگیری و منهدم کردند. یک فروند پهپاد MQ-۱ بر فراز منطقه راهبردی تنگه هرمز با هوشیاری نیروهای پدافند هوایی جنوب شرق ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران شناسایی و هدف قرار گرفت. این پهپاد پس از رهگیری توسط سامانه‌های پدافندی مستقر در جنوب شرق کشور تحت فرماندهی سامانه یکپارچه
What is hedged and what is stated flat: the shoot-down is stated as fact with no source named and no American response sought — “یک فروند پهپاد MQ-۱ بر فراز منطقه راهبردی تنگه هرمز با هوشیاری نیروهای پدافند هوایی جنوب شرق ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران شناسایی و هدف قرار گرفت.”
Evaluative wording: the defenders' conduct is praised in the same clause that reports it — “با هوشیاری نیروهای پدافند هوایی جنوب شرق ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران”
Where it is said to have happened: the strait is named in the headline; the other report we hold places it over Bandar Abbas — “شناسایی و انهدام پهپاد آمریکایی بر فراز تنگه هرمز”
Headline claims more than the body: destroyed in the headline; targeted in the text — “شناسایی و انهدام پهپاد آمریکایی بر فراز تنگه هرمز”
No actor named, and no source: the drone was identified and targeted, credited to alertness — “یک فروند پهپاد MQ-۱ بر فراز منطقه راهبردی تنگه هرمز با هوشیاری نیروهای پدافند هوایی جنوب شرق ارتش جمهوری اسلامی ایران شناسایی و هدف قرار گرفت.”
Read it at Shargh → https://www.sharghdaily.com/fa/tiny/news-1126597
Checked, didn’t cover
Haaretz
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Haaretz 🇮🇱IL · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A previous framing corrected the twelve-country statement described as ambiguously worded ×1Asserted flat The report states as fact that barring Arab parties is a standing ritual. ×1Asserted flat The report says ethnicity explains the different outcomes, in its own voice. ×1Asserted in the report's own voice Parties are characterised by what they are said to promise, unattributed, and the headline calls the result frightening. ×1 from 1936 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → The Times of Israel
Centre estimate · not a score
The Times of Israel 🇮🇱IL · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actorless in own voice The killing is passive with no shooter in the se ×1Headline carries the purpose The livestock and the army's reason are in the h ×1Headline frame The headline carries the military's word for the ×1Military words carried whole Both the label for the dead and the phrase for t ×1 from 149 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
Palestine TV · Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation 🇵🇸PS · TV/radio · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted versus attributed recognition itself stated as fact ×1Attribution 'historic' attributed to the Palestinian ambassador ×1Dead counted, not named two dead are counted as 'citizens' and none are named; the wounded are not counted ×1Dead named Gives the dead man's full name and age. ×1 from 766 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency)
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency) 🇮🇷IR · state agency · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A contested word in the headline "illegal" is a Chinese spokesperson's characterisation, carried unmarked in the headline ×1A contested word taken as the report's own "illegal" appears in the headline without quotation marks or attribution to the speaker ×1Acted upon, never acting police are named as acting; whoever hoarded a billion toman of staples is not named at all ×1Actor label The Houthi-run authority is called Yemen's transport ministry. ×1 from 15038 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Mada
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Al-Mada 🇮🇶IQ · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Ynet
Centre estimate · not a score
Ynet 🇮🇱IL · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured A claim in the headline that the other reports very close to deciding the regime appears in one report only ×1Active voice The killers are the subject of the verbs 'beat' and 'burned'. ×1Active voice The killers are named as acting ×1Army's term, attributed the army names the target of its strikes, and no one on the other side is quoted ×1 from 2684 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → North Press Agency
Centre estimate · not a score
North Press Agency 🇸🇾SY · wire · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Attribution the damage list is carried in full, attributed to the side claiming it ×1Single official source Uses the Saudi Press Agency's account: 'bilateral relations', with no mention of reconstruction or money. ×1What is at stake presents the stakes as trade and energy security; no ship, crew or price is counted ×1Which line is led with led by the legal instrument, naming the Security Council resolution by number ×1 from 1169 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Monitor
Centre estimate · not a score
Al-Monitor 🇺🇸US/ME · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Actor from anonymous officials Puts the IRGC at the trigger in a sentence sourc ×1Actor named Names the Director-General as the one who requested the dismissal ×1Actor named names Trump as the one who began the war, with Israel ×1Actor named names Israel as the actor in its military actions against the Palestinians ×1 from 1566 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Tehran Times
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
Tehran Times 🇮🇷IR · newspaper · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Asserted vs attributed headline states the seizure flat; the body attributes it to the claimant ×1Attribution the toll is attributed to a body that is described but not named ×1Headline against body headline states the seizure flat; the body attributes it to the IRGC ×1How the objectors are framed opposition is described as protesters speaking for civilians ×1 from 1753 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
WAFA · Palestinian News & Information Agency 🇵🇸PS · state agency · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency)
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency) 🇸🇾SY · state agency · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al-Manar
State-owned, sometimes critical estimate · not a score
Al-Manar 🇱🇧LB · TV/radio · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Middle East Eye
Centre-left estimate · not a score
Middle East Eye 🇬🇧UK · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured How hard the claim is stated Its own body says the investigators did not attribute the network to the Emirati state — the qualification its headline drops. ×1How hard the claim is stated The body withdraws in one line the attribution its own headline makes ×1How deeply it is sourced Cites its own past reporting as the evidence for the claim in its own headline, and calls the evidence widespread in its own voice ×1How deeply it is sourced Offers its own past reporting as the evidence supporting the claim in its headline, inside the same sentence that carries the denial. ×1 from 125 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → Ammon News
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Ammon News 🇯🇴JO · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al Jazeera English
Centre estimate · not a score
Al Jazeera English 🇶🇦QA · TV/radio · state-funded international No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accusation attributed Cuba's charge is attributed to its foreign minister, not stated as fact ×1Actor named The headline names Israel as the actor and gives a count of three that includes a child. ×1Agency No actor is named for the detentions. The raids, not the soldiers, 'left' the town in lockdown ×1Agency Names Israel as the actor in the headline, in active voice ×1 from 4959 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times → An-Nahar
Centre estimate · not a score
An-Nahar 🇱🇧LB · newspaper · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1 from 10777 articles we hold · quote attached Outlet profile in The AI Times →
Silence is recorded, not inferred — each of these was read when we built this story and carried nothing on this event.
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K Kan · Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation
Centre estimate · not a score
Kan · Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation 🇮🇱IL · public broadcaster · public-service No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → A Al-Sabaah
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
Al-Sabaah 🇮🇶IQ · newspaper · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Ma'an News Agency
Centre estimate · not a score
Ma'an News Agency 🇵🇸PS · digital · independent No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Al Rai
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
Al Rai 🇯🇴JO · newspaper · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times → Galei Tzahal (Army Radio)
State / loyalist estimate · not a score
Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) 🇮🇱IL · TV/radio · state-controlled No report held from this outlet on this story. What we have measured Nothing scored yet. We do not carry a rating for any outlet — only what we have measured from published text. Outlet profile in The AI Times →
These are must-cite outlets for this desk that we did not manage to read when we built this story. That is a gap in our reach, not a silence on their part, and it is not evidence of anything about this story.

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