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Damascus says the Riyadh talks covered rebuilding Syria; the Saudi account says 'bilateral relations'
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh on Tuesday. Syria's presidency says they discussed rebuilding Syria and bringing in investment. The Saudi …
Welt and the Washington Examiner say government forces attack the Houthis; a Jerusalem Post headline calls it a 'Houthi offensive'
Fighting has reached the approaches to Bab al-Mandab, the strait at the south end of the Red Sea. Two outlets say Saudi-backed government forces are attacking. One headline …
Life.ru says Yemen's government 'restored control' of Mocha; Público says it 'will have' regained the port
Two reports carry the Yemeni government's claim that it has retaken the Red Sea port of Mocha from the Houthis. Life.ru states it as fact on one state-agency …
The Media Line says Yemeni forces 'secure' Bab el-Mandeb; Reuters says they are 'advancing towards' it
Three reports filed within 13 minutes of each other on 5 October disagree on whether the strait at the Red Sea's southern end has changed hands. Only one …
Jerusalem Post says the US 'refuses to intervene' in Yemen; An-Nahar and LBCI quote Rubio on a 'binding' pact with Riyadh
Yemen's government launched 'Yemen Dawn' on 5 October to retake Sanaa from the Houthis, with Saudi-led air cover. On the same day, outlets disagreed on whether Washington is …
Israel's army says 'defensive security zone', Asharq Al-Awsat says 'Syrian buffer zone' and seized farmland, while one man is shot dead and two are 'apprehended' near Israeli posts
Five reports from Monday describe Israeli troops firing on people near their posts in southern Syria. A sixth, from a Saudi-owned paper, says Israel is extending a fortified …
Ynet says the Houthis are encircling Taiz as Yemen's government attacks; Asharq Al-Awsat says they are being fought off
Rashad al-Alimi heads Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council. On 4 October he announced an operation to retake the land the Houthis hold, and five outlets carried it. They disagree …
The Jerusalem Post says Iraqi militias "desecrate" the US flag; Iraq's prime minister orders an inquiry into an "infringement" and names no one
A US flag was laid on the road at a Sovereignty Day parade in Baghdad. The Jerusalem Post blames the militias. Iraq's government condemns the act and opens …
An-Nahar puts the bridge's ruin in 'the last war'; LBCI logs Israeli shelling the same day
On 4 October Lebanon began a stop-gap crossing for a bridge destroyed in what An-Nahar calls "the last war". Within two hours, LBCI logged shelling, blasts and burned …
IRNA says Saudi commanders fled Taiz; France 24, LBCI and Ynet say the Houthis cut its supply road
Yemen's Saudi-backed government announced an offensive on Sunday to retake Houthi-held territory. The reports we hold disagree on who is giving ground at Taiz, on what the operation …
Interfax says Yemeni government forces hit Houthi targets in Sanaa; a Houthi official says they hit 'civilian centres'
Air strikes hit the Yemeni capital on 3 October, and a fire sent smoke up near an Aramco site south of Riyadh. The reports we hold disagree on …
IRNA says Iraq agreed 40 daily Iranian flights to Najaf; Shargh says Iraq thanked Washington
Two Iranian outlets report Iranian flights into Iraq resuming on the same evening. Iran's state agency gives a flight count and names an airline that is barred. The …
Yemeni government forces claim 474 strikes in a day; The Jerusalem Post says the Saudi-backed assault is still weeks away
Four outlets reported on Yemen on 2 October and told four different stories: a blockade at sea to break, a strike count, a Houthi missile attack and a …
UPI headline says a US nuclear-site worker 'aided' the Houthis; An-Nahar says the charge is an attempt and proves no delivery
US prosecutors have charged a 51-year-old Energy Department engineer from Richland, Washington, with trying to give material support to the Houthis. Two reports carry the arrest. They differ …
LBCI headlines Jumblatt's Oslo post as a warning that "every round of negotiations" lost land; Al-Modon headlines it as advice to "benefit from the Oslo path"
Walid Jumblatt wrote about the Oslo path on X on 2 October. Two Lebanese outlets put opposite readings of the same post in their headlines. Neither text we …
Shargh says 'the Jolani regime' met Hezbollah in Turkey, Al-Modon says 'the Syrian government' — and all three reports rest on unnamed sources
Three outlets ran the same Reuters account of talks between Syria and Hezbollah in Turkey last month. They disagree on what to call the government in Damascus and …
Anadolu puts the gas blast in Eastern Ghouta, IRNA south of Damascus; three Syrian power plants are down either way
Syria's state electricity company says a blast on a gas line at the Tishreen plant cut fuel to three power stations and will lengthen power rationing. It has …
US forces leave Iraq: Centcom says a 12-year mission ended, the New York Times counts 23 years from the invasion
All four reports we hold agree that US forces left Iraq on Wednesday. They disagree on what ended: a mission that began in 2014, or a presence that …
Jerusalem Post says Baghdad asked the US back and now cheers its exit; Iraq's armed factions say their weapons stay until US and NATO forces are gone
US-led coalition forces are leaving Iraq. An Israeli analysis calls Iraq's reaction ingratitude. Six headlines from the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, carried by LBCI, say the withdrawal is …
UK monitor names no attacker for three ships hit in Hormuz; the Revolutionary Guard says it clashes there 'every 24 hours'
A British maritime monitor says an oil tanker, a cargo ship and a gas carrier were hit by "unspecified projectiles". In the same article, Iran's Revolutionary Guard says …
Tehran Times says the US left Iraq '23 years after' invading, Asharq Al-Awsat says a '12-year mission' ended, Shargh says operations go on from Jordan
The US military says its last troops have left Iraq. The reports disagree on what ended, when it began, and whether it is over at all.
One-month US waiver, says The Jerusalem Post; two months, Najaf to Mashhad only, says An-Nahar's Iraqi source
Iraqi Airways says it will fly to Iran again in October. Five outlets agree on that. They do not agree on how long the US exemption lasts, which …
The Jerusalem Post says Washington 'considers' a Najaf flight waiver, Reuters says it was 'set to grant' one on Monday, and Anadolu says flights have already resumed
Three reports filed within two hours on 28 September describe one US sanctions waiver for Iraqi Airways flights between Iran and Najaf. They place it at three different …
Der Standard says Hezbollah announces a housing project; Reuters says it plans to contribute to one
Two reports on 27 September 2026 give Hezbollah different roles in rehousing Lebanon's displaced. One says more than 340,000 people are displaced. The other says the project is …
Regnum says Saudi air strikes hit a Taiz market; Haaretz carries Yemen's government saying it hit a Houthi camp nearby
Both reports carry the same toll from the Houthi side: at least seven dead and 40 wounded. They disagree on who carried out the strike and on what …
Haaretz says the Israeli army 'attacks' south Lebanese villages; An-Nahar calls it 'aggression' as Israel cuts its brigades from eight to six
Lebanon's state news agency says Israeli fire hit Majdal Zoun and Haddatha on 26 September. On the same day, An-Nahar cited Israeli Army Radio as saying Israel is …
UN News blames 'renewed fighting' for Yemen's hungry children; Yemen's government, in Asharq Al-Awsat, blames whoever is arming the Houthis
Two reports on Yemen's war, published on the same day, tell two different stories. UN News calls the Houthis 'opposition forces' and puts child hunger first. Asharq Al-Awsat …
Asharq Al-Awsat says Iraq is enforcing US sanctions on Najaf flights; Iran's Mokhber calls it siding with America
Flights between Iran and Najaf stopped on Friday. One headline gives a reason with no source. An Iranian official gives another. No report we hold quotes an Iraqi …
North Press leads on "resolution 497", Al-Modon on "aberrant", Al Jazeera on New Jersey — one al-Sharaa speech
Syria's president told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that the Golan stays Syrian. Of the 14 reports we hold on the day, five lead on that pledge, …
Guardian says up to 169 killed and the Houthis consolidating; Asharq Al-Awsat says Taiz and Bab al-Mandab are curbing them
One report we hold carries a toll, and its two attributed counts add to 154, not 169. The Saudi-owned paper's headline has the advance being checked. UN News …
US says every Iranian airline stops flying on 23 September; Iran Air says no neighbour has told it to stop
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that all Iranian airlines stop on Wednesday. Iran Air says, via IRNA, that its flights to Istanbul, Baku and Najaf are …
New York Times account: Trump ordered, then halted, a Houthi strike. Axios account: he only weighed one and chose to wait
Four Lebanese and Israeli outlets carry two American press accounts of the same days, and the accounts disagree on whether Trump ever gave an order. Nobody on the …
Houthis say 28 Saudi strikes in a day; Riyadh confirms one missile
Six reports filed within an hour of each other on Sunday. Two numbers, each from a party to the fight. Nobody counted the people.
Asharq Al-Awsat says the Yemeni army is grinding the Houthis down, France 24 says their "lightning offensive" seized swathes of Yemen
A missile targeted Riyadh and the United States warned the fighting could "escalate rapidly". Nine reports, four names for the fighters, no casualty figure from Riyadh, and no …
The Media Line says the Houthis targeted Aramco in Yanbu; the Jerusalem Post says Riyadh, and that Saudi Arabia confirmed no hit
Yemen's Houthis say they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia on 19 September. Four reports name four different targets. Only one says Saudi Arabia has confirmed nothing, …
Observador cites the UN for 'more than 100,000' fleeing Yemen; UN News says 'thousands' reached Djibouti
Two reports on 18 September describe people leaving Yemen. One gives a UN figure of more than 100,000 and blames "internal conflicts". The other says thousands sheltered in …
Reuters says the drone was "launched by Yemen's Houthis"; the Jerusalem Post says "likely launched"
Both reports we hold say one person was killed when Saudi Arabia intercepted a drone on Thursday. Only one gives injuries. Neither names anyone who says who sent …
The Jerusalem Post says an "outlawed group" attacked; Asharq Al-Awsat says Syria's forces were the ones raiding
Two reports, three hours apart, give the same three dead security men in the Daraa countryside and reverse who was attacking whom. Neither names any of the three.
Arutz Sheva calls it an airstrike, LBCI calls it a detonation in two stages
Six reports on one Wednesday in south Lebanon. Three describe the blasts in Al-Mansouri, and they do not describe the same act. None gives a casualty figure, and …
Jerusalem Post says "terror group", Al-Modon says "the group" — and Saudi Arabia says nothing about either strike
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree says his side hit an airbase at Khamis Mushait and Aramco facilities at Yanbu, inside Saudi Arabia. Two outlets carry him. No report …
ABC says the US is warning staff off the Yemen border; the Guardian says it met the Houthis and stood back
Two reports 80 minutes apart put Washington on opposite sides of the same week. Neither counts a casualty.
Al-Modon calls Syria's fuel price rise "the tip of the iceberg"; The New York Times files it under a global energy crisis
Two outlets link Syria's protests to fuel prices but point at different causes. A third says in a headline that the protests have reached the Kurdish-majority northeast. We …
Jerusalem Post says the Houthis displaced 100,000; Shargh calls them "the armed forces of Yemen"
Five outlets use three names for one force. Two give 100,000 displaced, and only one says who displaced them. No report we hold gives a figure for Yemenis …
The Jerusalem Post says Houthis displaced 100,000 in Yemen. Reuters says “the renewed Yemen conflict” did
Six reports cover the UN refugee agency’s count. One headline blames a side. None of the reports quotes the agency blaming anyone.
Arab Parliament says Houthi missiles hit three Saudi cities; IRNA reports only Saudi jets bombing Marib
We hold 11 reports from six outlets on 15 September. Which side is striking depends on which one you read. Two reports from the same outlet disagree on …
The New York Times says Riyadh asked Washington for more military help; Deník N calls it "America's 'no'"
Yemen's Houthis opened a broad offensive on Saudi Arabia. Six reports, one day, and no agreement on whether the United States is standing behind Riyadh. Four measure the …
Houthis say dozens of missiles hit a Saudi air base; Saudi civil defence says the danger has passed
Two reports carry the Houthis' account of a strike on Khamis Mushait, with their own list of the damage. Two carry the Saudi authorities, who warned Abha and …
The Jerusalem Post names militias in Iraq, hedged with "potentially"; the other six reports name no one at all
A drone strike shut Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline on 11 September and crude rose. Seven reports agree on the weapon and the closure. They offer one hedged name, …
taz says the Houthis hold Bab al-Mandab; Asharq Al-Awsat says the government is attacking them
Five reports on the same Yemeni coast, filed within 37 minutes of each other, put four different parties in the subject position. None of the five gives a …
UN News says at least 46,000 displaced; Asharq Al-Awsat says 1,400 fled to Djibouti
Houthi forces hold Mokha and ground overlooking the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The two displacement figures we hold count different people, and no report gives a death toll.
An Iraqi inquiry suspects the Quds Force; Pakistan's prime minister condemns "the Houthis"
Drones hit Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline. The reports we hold agree they flew from Iraq. Two name an attacker, they name different ones, and neither says it …
The New York Times says the drone came from Iraq, Britain's foreign secretary names the Houthis, Iraq's military names nobody
Saudi Arabia has closed its East–West oil pipeline, one report says, quoting the kingdom. Across the 12 reports we hold, nobody names who launched the drone, and nobody …
The Washington Post quotes an official saying Iran "really started winning"; The Atlantic says "Trump Loses the Other Strait"
Fifteen reports on the Houthi advance down Yemen's Red Sea coast. Two say two oil corridors are shut; NPR reports one island taken. One report counts people: 46,000 …
An-Nahar counts 29 dead and 30 blasts on one village; JNS reports a Hezbollah base dismantled and no toll
Four reports on the same week in south Lebanon. One counts the detonations and the dead. One carries a single sentence from the Israeli chief of staff. None …
Reuters calls it a “lightning offensive” that puts the US “in a new bind”; Al Jazeera asks “can they hold it?”
Six reports on one advance towards Bab al-Mandab. One names the island. Two carry Trump saying the Houthis telephoned him. None quotes anyone in Yemen.
Trump says Iran probably hit the Saudi pipeline, Der Standard says Iraqi militias, Iraqi sources name nobody
Nine reports on a shut pipeline. Two name an attacker, and they name different ones. The Iraqi sources who place drone launch sites inside Iraq name no one …
LBCI: the border shut after drone launch sites were found. Baghdad: the closures are "temporary" and "organisational"
Iraq closed crossings with Iran hours after drones hit a Saudi oil pipeline, and sacked its Maysan commanders. Four reports give four reasons for the same closed gate; …
Al Jazeera reports a 'divine triumph', Al-Monitor 'a new bind' for Trump, Asharq Al-Awsat thousands fleeing
The Houthis reached Bab al-Mandeb and took Mayyun. Thirteen reports on the same advance: four name the force by its Iranian patron, one counts the displaced, none counts …
The Jerusalem Post says the next round moves to Washington; Aoun says there is "no new round of negotiations at present"
Ten reports, one day. One puts the next Israel–Lebanon round in Washington on the US State Department's word; two say the Rome round has slipped to October and …
Riyadh says drones came from Iraq; Trump says Iran was "probably" behind it; nobody has claimed the pipeline attack
Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry says several drones were launched from Iraq at the East-West oil pipeline. The US president says Iran was likely responsible. No party has claimed …
Libération says the Houthis seized Bab el-Mandeb; Reuters says they are still advancing on it
Libération's headline says the strait has been taken, but its own first line names only one island in it. Reuters, six minutes earlier, says the Houthis are still …
An-Nahar says the Houthis "completed control" of Bab al-Mandab; Asharq Al-Awsat says Yemeni forces "reposition themselves"
Houthi fighters now hold Mayun island, in the middle of the strait that carries Saudi oil exports. Two Lebanese papers call it a takeover. A Saudi paper's headline …
Israel's army calls the Ali al-Taher ridge "a sandbox"; an Al-Modon headline calls it a Hezbollah "successful withdrawal"
Israel blew up tunnels under a ridge in south Lebanon. Israeli military sources say the strike killed dozens of Hezbollah fighters. No report we hold names any of …
The Jerusalem Post says the Houthis took the port of Mocha; El Mundo says they took an island
Five reports carry the same Red Sea advance. Two name Mocha, one names the islet Zuqar, one says only "a strategic city", one says only the coast. None …
Trump says "No damage. No nothing"; Reuters says a US official reports aircraft hit in Jordan
Two reports, 28 minutes apart, answer the same question in opposite directions. Neither names the official. Neither counts the aircraft.
The Independent says the Houthis "reach" Mokha; Interfax says government forces "had to retreat"
Efimerida ton Syntakton calls it an outright capture, in one line. Shargh says Ansarallah also took Zuqar island — no other report we hold carries that. The Jerusalem …
The Jerusalem Post says the Houthis "took control" of Mocha; Al Jazeera says only "advancing"
Four of the eleven reports we hold credit Yemeni government or military sources for the fall of the Red Sea port. A Sanaa council member tells IRNA the …
Ynet has Netanyahu "very close" to deciding the regime in Iran; LBCI has him "committed to bringing down the terror regime"
Three reports on one appearance on the Hermon summit, on Syrian ground Israel holds. Two are a headline and nothing else. None carries an Iranian or a Syrian …
LBCI says the Houthis struck Saudi oil facilities; IRNA says Ansarallah and Saudi Arabia clashed
Four reports on the same day, two names for one movement, and one with nobody named as attacking. None of the four names a facility that was hit.
LBCI and An-Nahar lead on "hundreds detained"; Al-Monitor on operations "increasingly sustained and entrenched"
A UN commission told the Human Rights Council that some Israeli actions in Syria, including detaining civilians, could amount to war crimes. Four reports carry the finding with …
Riyadh says 73 civilians wounded; the parliament in Sanaa condemns "Saudi crimes"
Four reports count the wounded in Saudi Arabia; three name a Saudi ministry or the coalition spokesman as the source, and the fourth names none. Two reports carry …
France 24 says 129 dead in a Houthi push for Bab al-Mandab. Al Jazeera says dozens, and the hills retaken are at Taiz.
Houthi forces attacked government lines on Yemen's Red Sea side on Thursday. France 24, running AFP, leads on 129 dead and an offensive to seize the Bab al-Mandab …
LBCI counts two martyrs in Kfar Rumman. An-Nahar counts two victims in Nabatieh. It is one strike.
An Israeli drone hit a motorcycle in south Lebanon on Friday evening. Two reports give a toll and they agree: two dead. They disagree on the town and …
Ynet says Iran fired ballistic missiles at US bases in Jordan. A senior US official says Washington is "not aware" of any.
Three reports, two mastheads, no Jordanian voice. The launch reaches us through an Israeli outlet and the Israeli army; the not-knowing through an American reporter quoting an unnamed …
Katz says Israel holds Ali al-Taher, tunnels and all. A Hezbollah-bloc MP says the ridge is still being bombed.
Israel's defence minister said on Friday the army had taken the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon and cleared the tunnels beneath it. Hezbollah said nothing for more …
Israel's military says it took the Ali Taher Ridge. The one Lebanese account we hold is two days older and names no ridge.
Haaretz reported on 4 September that the Israeli military took over the strategic Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon, where it says Iranian personnel were holed up with …
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Anyone hurt is counted, not named eight deaths given as a number only ×1Framing of motive The lede calls the denial a punishment and puts 'fake news' in quotation marks; the officials being sued are left unnamed ×1How the person shot is named a status, not a name: the only report that never uses either name calls him an illegal alien ×1How the place is described a party label attached to the city in the same clause as the casualty count ×1
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An-Nahar
An-Nahar
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newspaper · independent
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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
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Haaretz
Haaretz
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newspaper · independent
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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
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LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
LBCI (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International)
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TV/radio · independent
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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
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Middle East Eye
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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
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North Press Agency
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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
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The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post
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newspaper · independent
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A count the body does not carry the headline says eight countries; the sentence names seven foreign ministers ×1Actor framing The Gulf ministers are the ones acting. Iran is the party they meet. ×1Actor generalised The headline has 'Baghdad' celebrating. The photo caption says the crowd is supporters of one armed group. ×1Actor named names the militias and calls the act 'desecration', in its own voice ×1
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