{ "name": "The MEFILES Record", "description": "Every measured figure published by MEFILES, with its date, desk, attribution and the story that carries the full sourcing.", "url": "https://mefiles.news/record.html", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "publisher": "MEFILES", "coverage": { "from": "2026-07-23", "to": "2026-09-04" }, "count": 653, "figures": [ { "date": "2026-09-04", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "767", "measures": "US troops wounded since 28 February, per the Pentagon casualty database", "headline": "Iran names four dead in a wedding strike; Vance says he is “extremely skeptical”", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-04-iran-names-four-dead-in-a-wedding-strike-vance-says-he-is.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-09-04", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "31", "measures": "Strike waves claimed by Iran’s army, per its own numbering on Press TV", "headline": "Iran hits US bases in Kuwait and the UAE as 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-04-israeli-shells-hit-the-same-hill-near-beit-jinn-again-and.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-04", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "200", "measures": "companies in the Egyptian-Chinese industrial zone on the Suez Canal, on official figures", "headline": "Xi signs a third Suez industrial phase in Cairo, and puts Beijing near the Nile file", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-04-xi-signs-a-third-suez-industrial-phase-in-cairo-and-puts.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-04", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "71%", "measures": "revenue jump the SCA’s own FY2026/27 forecast requires from a $4.67bn base", "headline": "Record reserves, an IMF programme expiring in December, and a canal forecast made before the war", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-04-record-reserves-an-imf-programme-expiring-in-december-and-a.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-04", "desk": "The 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"headline": "Washington puts Hormuz traffic at a wartime high while a tracker calls the strait effectively closed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-washington-puts-hormuz-traffic-at-a-wartime-high-while-a.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "Dozens", "measures": "soldiers reported arrested in Niamey; no official figure has been published", "headline": "Niamey calls it a coup, the wires call it a mutiny, and nobody has published a charge sheet", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-niamey-calls-it-a-coup-the-wires-call-it-a-mutiny-and-nobody.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "0", "measures": "reports datelined 1–3 September on the Bamako fuel blockade", "headline": "Three days without a Bamako fuel dateline, after six months of shortage and partial relief", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-three-days-without-a-bamako-fuel-dateline-after-six-months-of.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "12 Sep", "measures": "Date Sudan’s sanctions regime and arms embargo expire", "headline": "Sudan’s sanctions regime lapses September 12 as Washington pushes to widen the arms embargo", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-sudans-sanctions-regime-lapses-september-12-as-washington.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "100,000", "measures": "People displaced by the war sheltering in El Obeid, per Al Jazeera", "headline": "RSF fighters mass around El Obeid as UN investigators are ordered to open an urgent inquiry", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-rsf-fighters-mass-around-el-obeid-as-un-investigators-are.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "4M", "measures": "Square metres in the “New Damascus” district announced by SANA, 31 August 2026", "headline": "Emirati developer signs for a four-million-square-metre Damascus district as refugee returns decelerate", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-emirati-developer-signs-for-a-four-million-square-metre.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "8", "measures": "Israeli strikes on the Abu al-Duhur runway, 19 August, per Syrian state TV via NPR", "headline": "The north-east dissolved its army last week; in Suwayda the state cannot start an exam on time", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-north-east-dissolved-its-army-last-week-in-suwayda-the-state.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "$12bn", "measures": "China’s trade surplus with Egypt, first seven months of 2026 (Chinese customs)", "headline": "Xi signs in Cairo, but Beijing’s seven-month trade surplus outruns a decade of its investment", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-xi-signs-in-cairo-but-beijings-seven-month-trade-surplus.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "Dec 2025", "measures": "When Egypt withdrew from the Nile negotiations", "headline": "Beijing endorses Cairo’s Nile position eight months after Egypt walked out of the talks", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-beijing-endorses-cairos-nile-position-eight-months-after-egypt.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "13", "measures": "ballistic missiles Jordan’s military says entered its airspace on 1 September; 10 intercepted", "headline": "Iran says it hit US facilities in Erbil; neither Baghdad nor Washington confirms", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-iran-says-it-hit-us-facilities-in-erbil-neither-baghdad-nor.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "3", "measures": "armed groups that have announced integration into Iraq’s security forces, from a PMF of 70-plus factions", "headline": "Baghdad’s national security adviser has already unbundled the 30 September disarmament deadline", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-baghdads-national-security-adviser-has-already-unbundled-the.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "8.3%", "measures": "Share of Austria’s population identifying as Muslim, 2021 (4.2% in 2001) — Statistics Austria", "headline": "Austria’s chancellor wants a constitutional ban on ‘political Islam' and no draft exists yet", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-austrias-chancellor-wants-a-constitutional-ban-on-political.html", 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"value": "13,000", "measures": "US strikes in Iran as of the April 2026 ceasefire — the last figure Washington published", "headline": "A combined casualty figure became a death toll, and the strike count stopped being published", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-combined-casualty-figure-became-a-death-toll-and-the-strike.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "79", "measures": "Palestinians killed in the West Bank by settlers or Israeli forces since 1 January 2026, including 19 children (UN OCHA, via Al Jazeera)", "headline": "Two Palestinians killed at al-Mughayyir as settlers and soldiers enter village together", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-two-palestinians-killed-at-al-mughayyir-as-settlers-and.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "13", "measures": "Iranian ballistic missiles Jordan’s army says it intercepted or tracked to impact on 1 September — 10 downed, three landing in remote areas", "headline": "US strikes Iran after a month’s lull and the retaliation lands on Amman, Kuwait and Bahrain", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-us-strikes-iran-after-a-months-lull-and-the-retaliation-lands.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "27 Oct", "measures": "Israeli polling day — the first general election since October 7 and the wars that followed (Britannica)", "headline": "Netanyahu tells troops at the Yellow Line that Israel is not leaving the ground it holds", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-03-netanyahu-tells-troops-at-the-yellow-line-that-israel-is-not.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "4", "measures": "anonymous sources behind the entire story; zero agencies on the record", "headline": "Four 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-jordans-army-counts-thirteen-iranian-missiles-trump-counted.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "12.4", "measures": "ships a day through Hormuz in August, against ~130 before the war", "headline": "Washington and Tehran describe different waters, and the Brent curve prices a short closure", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-washington-and-tehran-describe-different-waters-and-the-brent.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "3", "measures": "armed incidents in Niamey since January 2026", "headline": "Gunfire in Niamey again as Tiani survives a third armed incident since January", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-gunfire-in-niamey-again-as-tiani-survives-a-third-armed.html", "sourceCount": 3 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "12", "measures": "months of JNIM’s fuel embargo on Mali", "headline": "JNIM’s fuel embargo on Mali turns one year old tomorrow with Bamako’s supply still unresolved", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-jnims-fuel-embargo-on-mali-turns-one-year-old-tomorrow-with.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "24 Aug", "measures": "Maïga received by Tebboune in Algiers", "headline": "Algiers and Bamako mend fences as Russia’s Africa Corps pulls back to the capital", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-algiers-and-bamako-mend-fences-as-russias-africa-corps-pulls.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "12 Sept", "measures": "Date the Darfur arms embargo expires", "headline": "Sudan’s army names the UAE from a parade ground as the arms embargo clock runs down", "story": 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File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "170,000", "measures": "bpd through Kirkuk–Ceyhan, against 1.5m capacity", "headline": "Zaidi calls for 10 million barrels a day while Kirkuk–Ceyhan runs at a ninth of capacity", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-zaidi-calls-for-10-million-barrels-a-day-while-kirkuk-ceyhan.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "4", "measures": "national chapters designated by the US since January 2026", "headline": "Four Brotherhood chapters carry US terrorism listings, and one designee lives in Britain", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-four-brotherhood-chapters-carry-us-terrorism-listings-and-one.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "157–101", "measures": "French National Assembly resolution vote in a 577-seat chamber", "headline": "European parliaments have voted on the 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-address-bar-still-shows-what-five-desks-believed-before-they.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "1,300+", "measures": "Palestinians killed in Gaza since the October 2025 ceasefire, per Gaza health officials cited by Reuters", "headline": "Israel claims Gaza City raid as its own after a day of militia framing", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-israel-claims-gaza-city-raid-as-its-own-after-a-day-of-militia.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "49–52", "measures": "Seats for the Likud/ultra-Orthodox/far-right bloc across late-June and July polling, against 61 needed", "headline": "Eisenkot leads the seat counts, and neither bloc has sixty-one", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-eisenkot-leads-the-seat-counts-and-neither-bloc-has-sixty-one.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "47", "measures": "threat actors listed on a dashboard whose payload last changed on 6 April 2026", "headline": "A six-month war whose cyber front is now being reported by aggregators and stale dashboards", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-six-month-war-whose-cyber-front-is-now-being-reported-by.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "H2 2026", "measures": "Meta reporting period in which AI is said to appear in nearly all disrupted CIB networks", "headline": "Meta says AI is now present in virtually every inauthentic network it takes down", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-02-meta-says-ai-is-now-present-in-virtually-every-inauthentic.html", "sourceCount": 3 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "8", "measures": "missiles Jordan says it intercepted; no independent damage assessment exists", "headline": "US strikes Larak Island; Iran’s claimed retaliation is denied by both host states", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-us-strikes-larak-island-irans-claimed-retaliation-is-denied-by.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "187", "measures": "vessels through the Strait of Hormuz between 4 March and 11 June (CSIS)", "headline": "Trump calls Hormuz “extremely good shape” as transit counts sit near zero", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-trump-calls-hormuz-extremely-good-shape-as-transit-counts-sit.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "402", "measures": "battles involving Russian fighters in Mali in 2025, down from 537 in 2024 (ACLED, via ADF)", "headline": "Niger’s junta survives a mutiny at Base 101, and Moscow says its troops ended it", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-nigers-junta-survives-a-mutiny-at-base-101-and-moscow-says-its.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "95%", "measures": "share of Mali’s fuel imported by road (Ops Con Intelligence, July 2026)", "headline": "A forged communiqué in Bamako, five dead near Gao, and a blockade turning one", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-forged-communiqu-in-bamako-five-dead-near-gao-and-a-blockade.html", "sourceCount": 3 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "200", "measures": "RSF fighters said by the army to have defected in North Kordofan", "headline": "Army says an RSF intelligence commander and 200 fighters crossed over in North Kordofan", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-army-says-an-rsf-intelligence-commander-and-200-fighters.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "19.5M", "measures": "people in acute food insecurity in Sudan, per UNICEF citing IPC", "headline": "Sudan’s operative famine number is about to roll over, and El Fasher has gone quiet", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-sudans-operative-famine-number-is-about-to-roll-over-and-el.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "177,021", "measures": "People SNHR counts as still forcibly disappeared, March 2011–August 2026", "headline": "Washington’s Syria delisting reaches the Federal Register a week after taking legal effect", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-washingtons-syria-delisting-reaches-the-federal-register-a.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "17", "measures": "Months SANA says the SDF integration took, dating to the March 2025 Abdi–Sharaa agreement", "headline": "The SDF is dissolved on paper while Damascus writes the seventeen-month history in English", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-sdf-is-dissolved-on-paper-while-damascus-writes-the-seventeen.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "7%", "measures": "Rise in Egypt’s 21-karat gold price in August, per the Gold Division", "headline": "Mines at Hormuz, a recovery claim at Suez, and gold doing the talking in Cairo", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-mines-at-hormuz-a-recovery-claim-at-suez-and-gold-doing-the.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "$7.3bn", "measures": "Total IMF disbursements to Egypt as of 31 July 2026", "headline": "An IMF deadline lands in September that nobody in Cairo is discussing in public", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-imf-deadline-lands-in-september-that-nobody-in-cairo-is.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "5", "measures": "factions refusing to disarm, per Rudaw — three of them named", "headline": "Iraq’s hardline factions offer Baghdad a two-year pause instead of their weapons", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-iraqs-hardline-factions-offer-baghdad-a-two-year-pause-instead.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "170,000", "measures": "barrels a day through Kirkuk–Ceyhan, on a 1.5m bpd line", "headline": "US and Iran trade fire around Hormuz again, and Baghdad pays for it in barrels", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-us-and-iran-trade-fire-around-hormuz-again-and-baghdad-pays.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "231", "measures": "days since the first designation tranche with no confirmed second", "headline": "Eight months after Washington’s first Brotherhood designations, no visible follow-on", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-eight-months-after-washingtons-first-brotherhood-designations.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "168", "measures": "days since the Dutch motion passed with no ban implemented", "headline": "From Paris to Tallahassee, the Brotherhood bans announced this year have not yet been executed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-from-paris-to-tallahassee-the-brotherhood-bans-announced-this.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "3 of 11", "measures": "outlets whose URL slug no longer matches the headline they published", "headline": "URLs preserve what three newsrooms rewrote: the Larak strike vanished from its own headline", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-urls-preserve-what-three-newsrooms-rewrote-the-larak-strike.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "5", "measures": "outlets that headlined a quote relayed from a single network, before Trump reversed it on the record", "headline": "A quote given to Fox set Monday’s coverage, then Trump contradicted it and the headlines stayed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-quote-given-to-fox-set-mondays-coverage-then-trump.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "5 of 6", "measures": "national desalination plants offline on 31 August 2026", "headline": "Five of six Israeli desalination plants went dark, and the first official line was that it wasn’t a cyberattack", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-five-of-six-israeli-desalination-plants-went-dark-and-the.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "60", "measures": "seats for the anti-Netanyahu Zionist bloc in Channel 12’s 3 August poll — one short", "headline": "A Jewish former deputy minister joins Ra’am while Netanyahu’s own slate becomes a police file", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-jewish-former-deputy-minister-joins-raam-while-netanyahus-own.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "11", "measures": "ongoing internet shutdowns worldwide, 31 August 2026 (Internet Society Pulse)", "headline": "Eleven shutdowns on the global counter, and nobody can say whether Iran is one of them", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-eleven-shutdowns-on-the-global-counter-and-nobody-can-say.html", "sourceCount": 3 }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "0", "measures": "UK agencies attributing the July generator outage to Iran on the record", "headline": "Iran is being blamed for a British power outage that no UK agency will confirm on the record", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-09-01-iran-is-being-blamed-for-a-british-power-outage-that-no-uk.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "2", "measures": "Iranian launchers struck, per CENTCOM", "headline": "US strikes two Iranian launchers on Larak Island, first acknowledged attack since late July", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-us-strikes-two-iranian-launchers-on-larak-island-first.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "$4.07", "measures": "US average gas price Sunday, per AAA, vs $2.98 pre-war", "headline": "Washington calls the Hormuz lanes open, Tehran calls the strait closed, and both are negotiating", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-washington-calls-the-hormuz-lanes-open-tehran-calls-the-strait.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "3", "measures": "attacks on the Niamey airport complex since January, by three different actors", "headline": "Niamey mutiny at Base 101 leaves Niger’s junta arguing with itself over what happened", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-niamey-mutiny-at-base-101-leaves-nigers-junta-arguing-with.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "2,640", "measures": "conflict-related deaths in the Central Sahel, Jan–Mar 2026 (UN OCHA)", "headline": "Eight months, one airport complex, three separate attackers — and an army bleeding officers' authority", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-eight-months-one-airport-complex-three-separate-attackers-and.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "215", "measures": "families who reached El Obeid on foot in 24 hours, 19–20 August (Sudan Tribune, citing state officials)", "headline": "Doctors' network says RSF killed five and displaced thousands west of Bara, in territory the army holds", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-doctors-network-says-rsf-killed-five-and-displaced-thousands.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "3", "measures": "times Kurmuk has changed hands since March 2026", "headline": "One outlet says a Yale lab found a materiel buildup at an Ethiopian base; the report itself is unread", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-one-outlet-says-a-yale-lab-found-a-materiel-buildup-at-an.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "2026-17653", "measures": "Federal Register document number carrying the rescission, published 31 August", "headline": "Washington publishes the legal instrument lifting Syria’s terror-sponsor designation, a week after announcing it", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-washington-publishes-the-legal-instrument-lifting-syrias.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "2", "measures": "civilians killed near Sweida on 30 August, per AFP and SOHR", "headline": "Two civilians killed on Sweida’s outskirts as government forces and Druze groups trade fire", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-two-civilians-killed-on-sweidas-outskirts-as-government-forces.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "17 months", "measures": "SANA’s framing of the integration timeline, March 2025 to August 2026 (Syrian state agency)", "headline": "Six days after the SDF dissolved, Syria’s state agency is publishing the official version of how it happened", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-six-days-after-the-sdf-dissolved-syrias-state-agency-is.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "5,700 MW", "measures": "Combined projected capacity of Karadobi, Mandaya and Beko Abo, against the GERD’s 5,150 MW (Al-Monitor)", "headline": "Ethiopia’s next three Blue Nile dams would outstrip the GERD, and Cairo’s leverage is thinning", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-ethiopias-next-three-blue-nile-dams-would-outstrip-the-gerd.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "5.2m tons", "measures": "Net cargo on CMA CGM-affiliated Suez transits so far in 2026, against 18.8m tons in all of 2025 (SCA via Maritime Executive)", "headline": "MSC returns five sailings to Suez while the tonnage figures say the recovery is still shallow", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-msc-returns-five-sailings-to-suez-while-the-tonnage-figures.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "30 Sept", "measures": "declared completion date for the US-led coalition mission in Iraq", "headline": "Baghdad’s “fixed and final” withdrawal date arrives in a month with no public troop count", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-baghdads-fixed-and-final-withdrawal-date-arrives-in-a-month.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "238,000", "measures": "PMF fighters, per the Washington Institute, August 2025", "headline": "Fayyadh’s two-week promise on the PMF law expires this week, days before the Americans go", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-fayyadhs-two-week-promise-on-the-pmf-law-expires-this-week.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "3", "measures": "Brotherhood chapters designated by the US on 13 January 2026, and the three Ottawa is now asked to mirror", "headline": "Advocacy report puts Brotherhood designation campaign on Canada’s doorstep, without a Canadian finding behind it", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-advocacy-report-puts-brotherhood-designation-campaign-on.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "76", "measures": "votes in the 150-seat Tweede Kamer for a Brotherhood ban on 17 March — with no government action since", "headline": "Nine months of Brotherhood bans have produced motions, referrals and one instrument that designates nothing", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-nine-months-of-brotherhood-bans-have-produced-motions.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "8 of 12", "measures": "verified headlines pegged to the end of a lull", "headline": "Eight of twelve verified headlines made the news the lull, not the strike on Larak", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-eight-of-twelve-verified-headlines-made-the-news-the-lull-not.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "8", "measures": "missiles Jordan says it intercepted; zero confirmed targets", "headline": "Jordan confirmed eight interceptions at dawn and pointedly did not confirm the target", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-jordan-confirmed-eight-interceptions-at-dawn-and-pointedly-did.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "57%", "measures": "of coalition voters back a Smotrich–Ben Gvir merger that would cost the two parties two seats (Kan News, 30 Aug)", "headline": "Ben Gvir refuses Netanyahu’s merger order, and Likud accuses him of crowning Eisenkot", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-ben-gvir-refuses-netanyahus-merger-order-and-likud-accuses-him.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "43–59", "measures": "seats attributed to Netanyahu’s bloc across six polls published in eight days", "headline": "Six Israeli polls in eight days put Netanyahu’s bloc anywhere between 43 and 59 seats", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-six-israeli-polls-in-eight-days-put-netanyahus-bloc-anywhere.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "4", "measures": "days offline, per one unnamed source in one newspaper", "headline": "Nine days after the Telegraph’s Iran-linked power plant story, Britain’s cyber agency has said nothing", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-31-nine-days-after-the-telegraphs-iran-linked-power-plant-story.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "$35.7m", "measures": "daily cost of the blackout, per Iran’s 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"sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "500+", "measures": "civilians killed in drone strikes, 1 Jan–15 Mar 2026 (OHCHR)", "headline": "The war’s centre of gravity moves east, and the drones follow it into Kordofan", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-wars-centre-of-gravity-moves-east-and-the-drones-follow-it.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "19.5M", "measures": "people in IPC Phase 3 or worse, Feb–May 2026", "headline": "Sudan’s catastrophe caseload fell by two thirds. That is not the same as a famine ending", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-sudans-catastrophe-caseload-fell-by-two-thirds-that-is-not-the.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "8", "measures": "Israeli air strikes reported on the Abu al-Duhur base, 17–18 August", "headline": "Damascus makes Mazloum Abdi a presidential adviser days after the force he led dissolved", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-damascus-makes-mazloum-abdi-a-presidential-adviser-days-after.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "100", "measures": "Alawites SOHR has documented killed in sectarian crimes in 2026, against 1,426 documented for March–June 2025", "headline": "Sanctions relief arrives with a four-year certification clock on minority protection", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-sanctions-relief-arrives-with-a-four-year-certification-clock.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "2016", "measures": "Year of Xi’s last visit to Egypt", "headline": "Xi arrives in Cairo for first Egypt state visit in a decade as action plan expires", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-xi-arrives-in-cairo-for-first-egypt-state-visit-in-a-decade-as.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "5,700MW", "measures": "Combined potential of the three planned Blue Nile projects, still at planning stage", "headline": "Cairo raised its Nile language three times in two weeks, mostly through unnamed sources", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-cairo-raised-its-nile-language-three-times-in-two-weeks-mostly.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "end-2026", "measures": "deadline for the last US troops under the earlier drawdown plan (Jerusalem Post)", "headline": "Erbil says American military support survives a lapsed agreement, and Washington has not said so", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-erbil-says-american-military-support-survives-a-lapsed.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "14 of 23", "measures": "ministers approved by parliament on 14 May 2026", "headline": "Ten months after the vote, Iraq still has no confirmed interior or defence minister", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-ten-months-after-the-vote-iraq-still-has-no-confirmed-interior.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "4", "measures": "Brotherhood national branches designated by the US in 2026", "headline": "Eight months into the US designation campaign, the test now sits with a British bank", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-eight-months-into-the-us-designation-campaign-the-test-now.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "2", "measures": "Rival Brotherhood leaderships reported — not independently verified", "headline": "A Brotherhood statement on the Mecca defence pact carries the seal of an acting General Guide", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-brotherhood-statement-on-the-mecca-defence-pact-carries-the.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "3 of 8", "measures": "Headlines about the Jalud attack containing no Palestinian (THE FILES desk count, 29–30 Aug 2026)", "headline": "A filmed assault in Jalud produced eight headlines, and three contained no Palestinian at all", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-filmed-assault-in-jalud-produced-eight-headlines-and-three.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "5 days", "measures": "Between the reported attacks on AFP journalists (25 Aug) and the NBC News crew (29 Aug) in the West Bank", "headline": "Two agencies attacked in five days, and the verb that keeps appearing is ‘says'", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-two-agencies-attacked-in-five-days-and-the-verb-that-keeps.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "Dozens", "measures": "phone calls between a senior Shin Bet official and Hamas’s Ghazi Hamad, per Channel 12 and Kan", "headline": "Israel’s military censor clears a two-year-old secret: Netanyahu approved a direct phone line to Hamas", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-israels-military-censor-clears-a-two-year-old-secret-netanyahu.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "4", "measures": "NBC News staff present in Jalud when a car with Israeli plates reversed toward them; AFP reported three attacked", "headline": "Masked settlers attacked an NBC crew south of Nablus while soldiers filmed nearby made no arrests", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-masked-settlers-attacked-an-nbc-crew-south-of-nablus-while.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "0", "measures": "accounts or assets quantified in the reporting on Meta’s Iran-linked takedown", "headline": "Meta and OpenAI both claim AI influence operations disrupted, and only one shows its work", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-meta-and-openai-both-claim-ai-influence-operations-disrupted.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-30", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "12", "measures": "US states with reported water-system intrusions; none publicly attributed by any agency", "headline": "A UK outage from July and US water intrusions from August are being re-dated into one operation", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-30-uk-outage-from-july-and-us-water-intrusions-from-august-are.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "236", "measures": "Hormuz transits, all cargo types, 1–19 August (Kpler, via Al Jazeera)", "headline": "Washington denies negotiating as Tehran and Muscat carve up the Strait’s revenues", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-washington-denies-negotiating-as-tehran-and-muscat-carve-up.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "~$1", "measures": "Year-on-year rise in US pump prices as of 21 August (CNN)", "headline": "Five days after Washington declared economic war on Iran, the penalties have not landed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-five-days-after-washington-declared-economic-war-on-iran-the.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "15", "measures": "months Mali and Algeria kept their airspace closed to each other, April 2025 to July 2026", "headline": "Mali’s prime minister goes to Algiers, and a rupture that began in 2023 is formally closed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-malis-prime-minister-goes-to-algiers-and-a-rupture-that-began.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "95%", "measures": "share of Mali’s fuel imported by road, the supply line JNIM has attacked since September 2025", "headline": "On the Sahel’s central war of logistics, the newest hard number this desk has is five weeks old", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-sahels-central-war-of-logistics-the-newest-hard-number-this.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "14", "measures": "days until the Darfur arms embargo lapses without a new resolution", "headline": "Washington’s Sudan-wide arms embargo draft runs into Moscow and Beijing before a 12 September deadline", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-washingtons-sudan-wide-arms-embargo-draft-runs-into-moscow-and.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "41%", "measures": "of Sudan’s $2.9bn 2026 appeal funded as of 3 August", "headline": "Khartoum state blames drones and looting as power fails across government-held Sudan", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-khartoum-state-blames-drones-and-looting-as-power-fails-across.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "180 days", "measures": "Interval at which the White House must certify Syrian counter-terrorism and minority-protection steps to Congress, for four years", "headline": "A force dissolves, a designation lapses, and the Security Council meets to catch up", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-force-dissolves-a-designation-lapses-and-the-security-council.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "8", "measures": "Israeli strikes on the Abu al-Duhur airbase reported by Syrian state TV, citing a military source", "headline": "Israel claims a security understanding with Damascus, then bombs an airbase to enforce it", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-israel-claims-a-security-understanding-with-damascus-then.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "$4bn", "measures": "External financing gap in Morgan Stanley’s adverse scenario", "headline": "Morgan Stanley makes Egypt’s external account a derivative of the Strait of Hormuz", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-morgan-stanley-makes-egypts-external-account-a-derivative-of.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "1,526", "measures": "Tankers among 3,580 Q2 Suez transits", "headline": "Suez revenue climbs 13% in the second quarter while container traffic stays down four-fifths", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-suez-revenue-climbs-13-in-the-second-quarter-while-container.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "30%", "measures": "discount to the lower of the SOMO or budget crude price, approved from 1 September", "headline": "Baghdad’s own website says fuel subsidies for all sectors end on 1 September", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-baghdads-own-website-says-fuel-subsidies-for-all-sectors-end.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "770,000 b/d", "measures": "mid-August Ceyhan target set by Baghdad on 2 June; outcome unpublished", "headline": "Baghdad set a 770,000 b/d Ceyhan target for mid-August and no one has published the outcome", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-baghdad-set-a-770-000-b-d-ceyhan-target-for-mid-august-and-no.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "2", "measures": "US states where a governor has acted against the Brotherhood or CAIR by executive instrument", "headline": "Oklahoma’s governor ordered an investigation of Muslim groups. He did not designate anyone", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-oklahomas-governor-ordered-an-investigation-of-muslim-groups.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "3", "measures": "Brotherhood chapters designated by the US State Department on 13 January 2026 — Egyptian, Lebanese, Jordanian", "headline": "Europe’s parliaments have voted against the Brotherhood. No enforceable instrument has followed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-europes-parliaments-have-voted-against-the-brotherhood-no.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "2", "measures": "headlines on one Reuters wire, same day", "headline": "A single Reuters file on the Jenin strike carried two headlines in one day, and the wire’s own photos contradicted its text", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-single-reuters-file-on-the-jenin-strike-carried-two-headlines.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "June 2025", "measures": "when Netanyahu said Israel ‘activated clans in Gaza'", "headline": "Haaretz documented Israeli-armed militias in Gaza. The pickup came almost entirely from outlets that already agreed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-haaretz-documented-israeli-armed-militias-in-gaza-the-pickup.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "43", "measures": "Seats for Netanyahu’s coalition in the Lazar/Maariv poll, against 59 for the opposition", "headline": "Ben Gvir refuses Netanyahu’s merger demand, saying the prime minister wants him small", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-ben-gvir-refuses-netanyahus-merger-demand-saying-the-prime.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "3", "measures": "Killed in the Jenin drone strike, 28 August", "headline": "A drone strike in Jenin kills three, and the three accounts of who died do not match", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-drone-strike-in-jenin-kills-three-and-the-three-accounts-of.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "2025", "measures": "Year of the channel Channel 12 says Netanyahu approved, active until February", "headline": "Israeli television reports Netanyahu authorised a direct Shin Bet channel to Hamas abroad", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-israeli-television-reports-netanyahu-authorised-a-direct-shin.html", "sourceCount": 3 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "170", "measures": "active-duty conscripts whose details were exposed, per Haaretz, 23 August", "headline": "Israeli soldiers built their own AI-assisted apps, and 170 conscripts' details ended up online", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-israeli-soldiers-built-their-own-ai-assisted-apps-and-170.html", "sourceCount": 3 }, { "date": "2026-08-29", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "0", "measures": "cyber or information-operations events this desk could confirm inside the 26–29 August window", "headline": "Three days produced no verified cyber incident in the region, and a stack of old claims dressed as new ones", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-29-three-days-produced-no-verified-cyber-incident-in-the-region.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "182", "measures": "days since the war began on 28 February 2026", "headline": "Qatar’s prime minister lands in Tehran while the White House says no talks are under way", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-qatars-prime-minister-lands-in-tehran-while-the-white-house.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "12.4", "measures": "average daily Hormuz transits, 1-19 August (Kpler), against ~130 before the war", "headline": "CENTCOM counts 1,500 escorted ships through Hormuz; the trackers count about twelve a day", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-centcom-counts-1-500-escorted-ships-through-hormuz-the.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "7%", "measures": "Brent’s decline over the week to 27 August (Bloomberg)", "headline": "The sanctions round that markets read as a bluff took seven percent off Brent in a week", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-sanctions-round-that-markets-read-as-a-bluff-took-seven.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "1,300 km", "measures": "Algeria–Mali border invoked by Maïga in Algiers", "headline": "Mali’s prime minister leaves Algiers with an invitation for Goïta and no calendar attached", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-malis-prime-minister-leaves-algiers-with-an-invitation-for-go.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "2,980 bn", "measures": "CFA francs in Niger’s 2026 budget, per Africtelegraph", "headline": "Tiani enacts a 2026 Niger budget up two percent and framed around an oil crisis", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-tiani-enacts-a-2026-niger-budget-up-two-percent-and-framed.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "6,400", "measures": "Sudanese pounds to the dollar, parallel market, 27 August (traders)", "headline": "Sudan’s pound touches 6,400 to the dollar days after the central bank frees rates", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-sudans-pound-touches-6-400-to-the-dollar-days-after-the.html", "sourceCount": 2 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "59,000", "measures": "Deaths recorded war-to-date, AP tally (far below epidemiological estimates)", "headline": "Washington asks the Security Council to embargo all of Sudan, and names no supplier", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-washington-asks-the-security-council-to-embargo-all-of-sudan.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "1/3", "measures": "Share of Syria’s 2026 UN humanitarian appeal funded, per Security Council Report’s August forecast", "headline": "Abdi dissolves the SDF, and the Council meets on a Syria still a third funded", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-abdi-dissolves-the-sdf-and-the-council-meets-on-a-syria-still.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "8", "measures": "Air strikes reported on the Abu al-Duhur airbase, 17–18 August, per Syrian state TV and Axios", "headline": "Damascus says it met Israel in Jordan; a Druze leader says his community belongs to Israel", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-damascus-says-it-met-israel-in-jordan-a-druze-leader-says-his.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "529", "measures": "oil tankers through Suez in April 2026, up 28% year on year (CAPMAS)", "headline": "Suez revenue climbs to a two-year high on a strait that is still closed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-suez-revenue-climbs-to-a-two-year-high-on-a-strait-that-is.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "$56.29bn", "measures": "net international reserves at end-July, a 47th consecutive monthly rise (CBE)", "headline": "Egypt banks record reserves as the IMF facility runs down to a December deadline", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-egypt-banks-record-reserves-as-the-imf-facility-runs-down-to-a.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "33", "measures": "days from 28 August to Zaidi’s 30 September disarmament deadline", "headline": "Zaidi’s militia disarmament deadline is 33 days out with no published mechanism", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-zaidis-militia-disarmament-deadline-is-33-days-out-with-no.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "89%", "measures": "share of Iraq’s first-half 2026 spending going to salaries, pensions and social security (derived)", "headline": "Iraq spent nine-tenths of its first-half budget on salaries as revenue fell 42%", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-iraq-spent-nine-tenths-of-its-first-half-budget-on-salaries-as.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "4", "measures": "domains carrying Brotherhood statements in August 2026", "headline": "Brotherhood tells its base that only the group’s institutions speak for it", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-brotherhood-tells-its-base-that-only-the-groups-institutions.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "0", "measures": "persons or groups designated by Executive Order 14362 itself", "headline": "Nine months of Brotherhood designations have produced more instructions than proscriptions", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-nine-months-of-brotherhood-designations-have-produced-more.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "6", "measures": "headlines, one briefing, six different lead facts", "headline": "Mladenov spoke once at the Security Council. The wires reported six different mornings", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-mladenov-spoke-once-at-the-security-council-the-wires-reported.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "15", "measures": "points in the disarmament roadmap, per one outlet only", "headline": "Two spellings of the envoy’s name mark which newsrooms read the transcript", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-two-spellings-of-the-envoys-name-mark-which-newsrooms-read-the.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "2", "measures": "Separate back-channels to Hamas reported in one evening — 2014 and 2025", "headline": "Israeli television reports Netanyahu ran back-channels to Hamas in 2014 and again in 2025", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-israeli-television-reports-netanyahu-ran-back-channels-to.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "Hundreds", "measures": "Extremists in a near week-long confrontation with the IDF at Kusra, per IDF officials", "headline": "Zamir orders West Bank reinforcements for the holidays, then attacks the treasury over money", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-zamir-orders-west-bank-reinforcements-for-the-holidays-then.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "3", "measures": "Palestinians reported killed in Israeli strikes on 27 August, per medics and local media", "headline": "Katz renews his threat to clear Gazan areas over kites as strikes kill three", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-katz-renews-his-threat-to-clear-gazan-areas-over-kites-as.html", "sourceCount": 3 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "4", "measures": "days the generator was offline, per a single unsourced press account", "headline": "Six days on, no British official has said Iran shut down that power generator", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-six-days-on-no-british-official-has-said-iran-shut-down-that.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "2,564", "measures": "personnel records claimed exfiltrated — one vendor account, primary document unread", "headline": "This week’s newest intrusion claims arrived as chart-ready figures with no primary attached", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-28-this-weeks-newest-intrusion-claims-arrived-as-chart-ready.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "30–60", "measures": "Days Iran and Oman have set to negotiate a fuller Hormuz understanding", "headline": "Iran outlines a Hormuz corridor with Oman, then says the strait remains closed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-iran-outlines-a-hormuz-corridor-with-oman-then-says-the-strait.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "50–60%", "measures": "Share of pre-war Hormuz flows CBA says would revive oversupply expectations", "headline": "Brent surrenders about eight dollars in four sessions as traders price sanctions below war", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-brent-surrenders-about-eight-dollars-in-four-sessions-as.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "9 Aug", "measures": "Date Algiers phoned the invitation; Bamako announced it 22 August", "headline": "Malian premier received by Tebboune in Algiers as two-year rupture is formally closed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-malian-premier-received-by-tebboune-in-algiers-as-two-year.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "100+ vs 3", "measures": "Africa Corps fighters and Malian soldiers at Bombori, per HRW witnesses", "headline": "HRW places more than 100 Russian fighters and three Malian soldiers in the same village", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-hrw-places-more-than-100-russian-fighters-and-three-malian.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "15x", "measures": "Gap between the two displacement estimates published in the same 25 August report on El Obeid", "headline": "Civilians keep flowing into besieged El Obeid, and no one can agree how many are there", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-civilians-keep-flowing-into-besieged-el-obeid-and-no-one-can.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "Sept 12", "measures": "Reported expiry date of the 2004 Darfur arms embargo — unverified, awaiting Council documents", "headline": "Suspected army drones hit Nyala hours after a cargo jet landed, with the embargo clock running down", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-suspected-army-drones-hit-nyala-hours-after-a-cargo-jet-landed.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "0", "measures": "published documents setting out what Damascus conceded in the integration deal", "headline": "Abdi dissolves the SDF in Damascus, six days after declaring integration complete", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-abdi-dissolves-the-sdf-in-damascus-six-days-after-declaring.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Syria File", "deskId": "syria", "value": "8", "measures": "air strikes on Abu al-Duhur’s runway and storage facilities, per Syria’s Ekhbariya citing a military source", "headline": "Damascus says it met Israeli officials in Jordan; only Damascus has said so", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-damascus-says-it-met-israeli-officials-in-jordan-only-damascus.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "30 Aug–3 Sep", "measures": "Xi’s tour window, per Beijing; Cairo gave no dates", "headline": "Xi Jinping will visit Egypt next week, and Beijing announced the dates Cairo left blank", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-xi-jinping-will-visit-egypt-next-week-and-beijing-announced.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Egypt File", "deskId": "egypt", "value": "$1.26bn", "measures": "Q2 2026 Suez Canal revenue, per CAPMAS — up 13% on Q1", "headline": "Suez revenue is climbing again because the Strait of Hormuz is shut, not because the Red Sea is safe", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-suez-revenue-is-climbing-again-because-the-strait-of-hormuz-is.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Iraq File", "deskId": "iraq", "value": "250", "measures": "US troops reported in October 2025 as staying at Ain al-Asad; 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None led on the date", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-eleven-outlets-covered-mladenovs-security-council-briefing.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "1", "measures": "word removed from the headline, retained in the slug", "headline": "A Canadian broadcaster dropped Trump from the AP headline and kept him in the URL", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-canadian-broadcaster-dropped-trump-from-the-ap-headline-and.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "32", "measures": "Likud seats won in 2022; Haaretz now puts the party “in the low twenties”", "headline": "Netanyahu owns a Syria strike as Haaretz relays an unnamed claim about a plot on his son", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-netanyahu-owns-a-syria-strike-as-haaretz-relays-an-unnamed.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "140", "measures": "Labour MPs who signed a letter backing a settlement trade ban, per Times of Israel", "headline": "A Senate letter lands, a British trade ban is only “poised,” and Israel weighs expelling UK officials", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-senate-letter-lands-a-british-trade-ban-is-only-poised-and.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "5", "measures": "outlets, one unretrieved vendor report", "headline": "Iran-linked intrusion set said to widen European and Gulf footprint, on a vendor document nobody has read", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-iran-linked-intrusion-set-said-to-widen-european-and-gulf.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-27", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "4", "measures": "days of claimed lost generation, publisher of origin unidentified", "headline": "A four-day outage at a UK generator has circulated for four days without a UK official saying anything", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-27-four-day-outage-at-a-uk-generator-has-circulated-for-four-days.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-26", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "236", "measures": "Hormuz transits, all cargo types, 1–19 August 2026 (Kpler via Al Jazeera)", "headline": "Iran and Oman announce an interim framework for Hormuz, with no coordinates, no ships and no American signature", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-26-iran-and-oman-announce-an-interim-framework-for-hormuz-with-no.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-26", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "$94.39 → $89.50", "measures": "Brent, 21 August close to 25 August, across the sanctions rollout (CNBC; 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Britain only found out about it this weekend", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-25-british-generator-went-dark-in-july-britain-only-found-out.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "100+", "measures": "US water facilities reportedly targeted, per the New York Times via CSIS", "headline": "American water utilities are the pressure gauge, and the President disputes his own agencies' silence", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-25-american-water-utilities-are-the-pressure-gauge-and-the.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "800,000", "measures": "daily hacking attempts claimed by the UAE Cyber Security Council, unaudited", "headline": "The UAE says it absorbs 800,000 hacking attempts a day. 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Nobody outside the government has counted them", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-24-bamako-says-900-tankers-reached-the-capital-saturday-nobody.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-24", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "2", "measures": "Umma parties rejecting the dialogue invitation in its current form", "headline": "Sudan’s anti-war parties meet in Addis Ababa to answer Burhan’s offer of immunity", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-24-sudans-anti-war-parties-meet-in-addis-ababa-to-answer-burhans.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-24", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "16", "measures": "RSF-linked individuals and entities designated by Washington in three actions this year", "headline": "The army absorbs RSF defectors, including a commander accused over El Fasher", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-24-army-absorbs-rsf-defectors-including-a-commander-accused-over.html", 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-24-shin-bet-chief-confirms-he-denied-eisenkot-a-security-detail.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-24", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "4", "measures": "days the UK generator was offline, per The Telegraph", "headline": "Nine outlets, one anonymous source: how a July generator outage became a historic Iranian strike", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-24-nine-outlets-one-anonymous-source-how-a-july-generator-outage.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-24", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "~170", "measures": "conscripts whose details were exposed, per TheMarker", "headline": "IDF ignored a soldier’s warning for a week as conscript records sat online, TheMarker reports", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-24-idf-ignored-a-soldiers-warning-for-a-week-as-conscript-records.html", "sourceCount": 2 }, { "date": "2026-08-23", "desk": "Iran File", 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"measures": "US states reporting water or wastewater cyber incidents by 4 August (Axios)", "headline": "Twelve US states reported water system intrusions; the FBI still has not named who was behind them", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-23-twelve-us-states-reported-water-system-intrusions-the-fbi.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "7", "measures": "Ships through Hormuz in 24 hours to 18 August, against ~110/day before the war (CNN, MarineTraffic)", "headline": "Trump claims total control of Hormuz as seven ships cross in a day", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-22-trump-claims-total-control-of-hormuz-as-seven-ships-cross-in-a.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "$93.86", "measures": "Brent close, 21 August — up 38.58% year on year but 0.02% over four weeks (Trading Economics)", "headline": "Beijing and Tehran move first against an “economic D-Day” that has no text yet", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-22-beijing-and-tehran-move-first-against-an-economic-d-day-that.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "4 days", "measures": "Since a single anonymous source told CNN an Iran–Oman deal was ‘a couple of days' away", "headline": "Iran says a Hormuz “navigation map” is agreed with Oman; Trump threatens to bomb Muscat", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-22-iran-says-a-hormuz-navigation-map-is-agreed-with-oman-trump.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "70%", "measures": "drinking-water gap in El Obeid city, Plan International estimate reported 1 August 2026", "headline": "Villages burn 40 km from El Obeid as displaced families move toward the besieged city", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-22-villages-burn-40-km-from-el-obeid-as-displaced-families-move.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "4", "measures": "different dates given by credible outlets for the SAF capture of Bara", "headline": "One Kordofan town, four capture dates, and the limits of reading Sudan’s war from announcements", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-22-one-kordofan-town-four-capture-dates-and-the-limits-of-reading.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "6", "measures": "US federal designation actions touching the Brotherhood, 24 Nov 2025 – 23 Jul 2026", "headline": "Washington’s Brotherhood designation perimeter keeps widening, and its legal basis is still unclear", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-22-washingtons-brotherhood-designation-perimeter-keeps-widening.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "79", "measures": "days between Abbott’s Texas proclamation and Paxton’s Collin County suit", "headline": "Texas and Florida turn the Brotherhood designation into litigation American judges must now rule on", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-22-texas-and-florida-turn-the-brotherhood-designation-into.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "21", "measures": "states that condemned the E1 approval in August 2025, against roughly a dozen this week (Euronews)", "headline": "Six, seven, a dozen: Western outlets could not agree how many states rebuked the E1 tender", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-22-six-seven-a-dozen-western-outlets-could-not-agree-how-many.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "2.5%", "measures": "rise in WTI 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-22-shutdown-tracker-counts-eleven-live-disruptions-on-20-august.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-22", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "~10 min", "measures": "that a live-streamed shooting kept broadcasting after Philippine officials say they alerted Meta", "headline": "Manila says Meta took ten minutes too long; Delhi says its machines move too fast", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-22-manila-says-meta-took-ten-minutes-too-long-delhi-says-its.html", "sourceCount": 2 }, { "date": "2026-08-21", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "<300M", "measures": "barrels in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve — lowest since January 1983", "headline": "Trump promises an unprecedented economic war; the UAE has already stopped trading with Iran", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-21-trump-promises-an-unprecedented-economic-war-the-uae-has.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-21", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "32%", "measures": "of 74 vessels matched by Windward in the Hormuz corridor broadcast a mismatched AIS identity", "headline": "Hormuz transits fall to 73 as trackers reclassify a boarded tanker off Qeshm as seized", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-21-hormuz-transits-fall-to-73-as-trackers-reclassify-a-boarded.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-21", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "3", "measures": "working groups — defence, diplomacy, development — feeding the AES “Year II” roadmap", "headline": "AES officials close roadmap review in preparation for a summit no one has yet dated", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-21-aes-officials-close-roadmap-review-in-preparation-for-a-summit.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-21", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "8", "measures": "civilians killed at Kyrnia on 15 June, including three children, per 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-20-abu-dhabi-halts-all-trade-with-iran-as-trump-promises-economic.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "750+", "measures": "US service members wounded since the war began, per the Defense Department casualty database", "headline": "Tehran says it has a Hormuz traffic deal with Oman; Muscat has not said so publicly", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-20-tehran-says-it-has-a-hormuz-traffic-deal-with-oman-muscat-has.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "402", "measures": "battles involving Russian fighters in Mali in 2025, down from 537 in 2024 (ACLED, via AFRICOM’s Africa Defense Forum)", "headline": "Goïta phones Putin on the anniversary of the accords and comes away with a communiqué", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-20-go-ta-phones-putin-on-the-anniversary-of-the-accords-and-comes.html", 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"people trapped in El Obeid, per Al Jazeera, 6 July 2026", "headline": "Blue Nile described as the war’s fastest-moving theatre while El Obeid goes unreported for three days", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-20-blue-nile-described-as-the-wars-fastest-moving-theatre-while.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "13", "measures": "months H.R.4397 has sat in House Foreign Affairs Committee", "headline": "Washington’s Brotherhood designations have moved seven times since November; Congress has not moved once", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-20-washingtons-brotherhood-designations-have-moved-seven-times.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "31", "measures": "of 138 Jordanian parliamentary seats won by the IAF in 2024", "headline": "Jordan is dismantling the Brotherhood through party registration law, not 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"Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "110", "measures": "Countries receiving Apple threat notifications, 13 Aug — a country count, not a victim count", "headline": "Apple’s spyware alerts reached 110 countries, and the change was in how they arrived", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-20-apples-spyware-alerts-reached-110-countries-and-the-change-was.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "12", "measures": "US states reporting water-system cyber incidents — a figure roughly two weeks old", "headline": "Four of this week’s most-shared Iran cyber stories are between two weeks and six months old", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-20-four-of-this-weeks-most-shared-iran-cyber-stories-are-between.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-19", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "4", "measures": "conditions Ghalibaf set for reopening Hormuz", "headline": 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"2026-08-17", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "17%", "measures": "of pre-conflict Hormuz traffic, week to 14 August", "headline": "Bessent’s promised sanctions package lands the same week Gulf officials tell the Post they are paying for the war", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-17-bessents-promised-sanctions-package-lands-the-same-week-gulf.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "300+", "measures": "fuel tankers destroyed on the routes into Mali since September 2025", "headline": "Bamako’s fuel convoys have become the war’s scoreboard, and every side is inflating them", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-17-bamakos-fuel-convoys-have-become-the-wars-scoreboard-and-every.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "82", "measures": "Malian soldiers released by the FLA in August; about 118 reported still held", "headline": "Forty dead at San, and no one can say on which side they were counted", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-17-forty-dead-at-san-and-no-one-can-say-on-which-side-they-were.html", "sourceCount": 3 }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "841,000", "measures": "people in areas where WFP, UNICEF and FAO say outcomes can no longer be predicted", "headline": "African Union delegation ends Sudan field visit as army and RSF gain ground on separate fronts", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-17-african-union-delegation-ends-sudan-field-visit-as-army-and.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "70.15t", "measures": "gold produced 2023–2025, of which more than 55 tons bypassed the treasury (Sudan Tribune)", "headline": "Army presses in Kordofan while RSF advance on the Ethiopian border and widen drone strikes", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-17-army-presses-in-kordofan-while-rsf-advance-on-the-ethiopian.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "3", "measures": "US states whose governors have moved against CAIR — Texas, Florida, Oklahoma", "headline": "Oklahoma orders an intelligence review of CAIR, stopping short of the Texas and Florida designations", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-17-oklahoma-orders-an-intelligence-review-of-cair-stopping-short.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "4", "measures": "Brotherhood chapters actioned under EO 14362 since 24 November 2025 — Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan", "headline": "Egypt and Jordan are still SDGT rather than FTO, eight months after Washington’s “first step”", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-17-egypt-and-jordan-are-still-sdgt-rather-than-fto-eight-months.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "3", "measures": "different ceasefire start dates given by three wires for the same truce", "headline": "Eleven dead in south Lebanon, and every wire chose a different baseline to measure it against", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-17-eleven-dead-in-south-lebanon-and-every-wire-chose-a-different.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "0", "measures": "independent confirmations of either commander’s death or rank", "headline": "Two commanders, two days, no confirmation beyond the military that killed them", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-17-two-commanders-two-days-no-confirmation-beyond-the-military.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "desk": "Israel Press 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-08-al-atta-promises-the-rsf-is-finished-by-december-while-un.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "1.5t", "measures": "bullion, $100m at the time, taken from Sudan’s central bank and state refinery (FT)", "headline": "Juba Recasts Sudanese Ingots as South Sudanese, and Every Emirati Cargo Flight Rests on an Unnamed Source", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-08-juba-recasts-sudanese-ingots-as-south-sudanese-and-every.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "35", "measures": "killed in the 2 August SAF drone strike on a Darfur court (Emergency Lawyers; CFR says 37)", "headline": "SAF Sources Say They Bombed the Libya–Egypt Border Triangle Mada Masr Reported Shut in April", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-08-saf-sources-say-they-bombed-the-libya-egypt-border-triangle.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "25", "measures": "CAIR chapters, per Stanford Law and the Knight Institute", "headline": "A Court Has Florida’s Terror List on Hold While Texas’s Suit Sits Undecided", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-08-court-has-floridas-terror-list-on-hold-while-texass-suit-sits.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "2", "measures": "men holding the title of acting General Guide, per Al-Manassa", "headline": "Al-Manassa Counts Two Acting General Guides Inside the Group Washington Designates Chapter by Chapter", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-08-al-manassa-counts-two-acting-general-guides-inside-the-group.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "1", "measures": "headlines in the sample using the signatories' own 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Different Reasons Mossad’s Iran Team Was Removed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-08-one-channel-12-report-produced-three-different-reasons-mossads.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "11", "measures": "Arab-party seats separating the opposition’s 69 from its 58", "headline": "Channel 13 Put the Opposition at 69 Seats and at 58, and the Difference Is Eleven Arab Seats", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-08-channel-13-put-the-opposition-at-69-seats-and-at-58-and-the.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "4", "measures": "coalition parties that opposed the voter-tracking ban", "headline": "The Elections Committee Barred Real-Time Voter Tracking, and Four Coalition Parties Opposed the Petition", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-08-elections-committee-barred-real-time-voter-tracking-and-four.html", "sourceCount": 3 }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "12 vs 4", "measures": "States reporting OT attacks, versus states publicly named", "headline": "Utilities in Twelve States Say They Were Hit, Four Will Say So by Name", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-08-utilities-in-twelve-states-say-they-were-hit-four-will-say-so.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-08", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "0", "measures": "New first-tier APT reports published in the 72-hour window", "headline": "The Fresh-Looking Iran Cyber Material This Weekend Is Mostly March, April and June", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-08-fresh-looking-iran-cyber-material-this-weekend-is-mostly-march.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "3.8%", "measures": "Brent’s rise on 6 August after the restrictive draft leaked, reversing a week of de-escalation pricing", "headline": "Fars Published a Hormuz Draft That Excludes Israeli Cargo While Two Officials Said There Are No Fees", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-fars-published-a-hormuz-draft-that-excludes-israeli-cargo.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "9", "measures": "Saudi tankers the Houthi spokesman claims to have targeted since the port blockade began — none independently verified", "headline": "Riyadh Warned of Imminent Attacks One Day Before Signing a Defence Pact With Turkey and Pakistan", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-riyadh-warned-of-imminent-attacks-one-day-before-signing-a.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "5.6M", "measures": "forcibly displaced and stateless projected in the Sahel Plus region by end-2026 (UNHCR)", "headline": "The African Union Sits on the Sahel Today for Three Governments That Have Left Everything Else", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-african-union-sits-on-the-sahel-today-for-three-governments.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "8", "measures": "civilians killed at Kyrnia on 15 June, three of them children, per HRW", "headline": "Human Rights Watch Puts Russia’s Africa Corps Over a Cattle Market, and Nobody Has Answered", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-human-rights-watch-puts-russias-africa-corps-over-a-cattle.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "1.5t", "measures": "Bullion Sudan Tribune says the FT traced from Sudan’s central bank and state refinery", "headline": "The Stolen Bullion Has a Named Buyer and a Single-Source Route Out Through Juba", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-stolen-bullion-has-a-named-buyer-and-a-single-source-route-out.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "141", "measures": "Drone attacks recorded in North Kordofan, 1 January–8 July 2026 (INSO, via MSF)", "headline": "SAF Says the El Obeid Road Is Open; Dabanga Reports Locals Dispute the Reopening", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-saf-says-the-el-obeid-road-is-open-dabanga-reports-locals.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "1", "measures": "senators in the room for the subcommittee’s Brotherhood hearing", "headline": "Cruz Held His Brotherhood Hearing Alone, and Six of His Own Republicans Also Stayed Away", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-cruz-held-his-brotherhood-hearing-alone-and-six-of-his-own.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "4", "measures": "bills on Brotherhood or CAIR designation live in the 119th Congress", "headline": "Five Democrats Refused the Hearing, and One of Them Reportedly Conceded the Object of It", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-five-democrats-refused-the-hearing-and-one-of-them-reportedly.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "1/5", "measures": "Share of the world’s traded oil and gas that transited Hormuz before the war, per AP", "headline": "MS NOW Headlined a Hormuz Agreement Its Own Body Called a Framework and Temporary", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-ms-now-headlined-a-hormuz-agreement-its-own-body-called-a.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "0", "measures": "Governments of the three named states that had confirmed the pact on the record at compilation", "headline": "A Friday Defence Signing Reported by Reuters and AFP With No Named Official and No Agreed Venue", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-friday-defence-signing-reported-by-reuters-and-afp-with-no.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "51", "measures": "Coalition seats in Channel 13’s 5 August projection, against 69 for the opposition", "headline": "Erdan and Edelstein Launched a Party With Four Principles, No Name and No Slate", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-erdan-and-edelstein-launched-a-party-with-four-principles-no.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "5–7%", "measures": "Cargo-value transit fee Iran is seeking, per one unnamed Iranian official; Oman is discussing 3%, Washington zero", "headline": "Trump Said No Hormuz Deal Exists, and the Israeli Press Split on Whether to Print the Caveat", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-trump-said-no-hormuz-deal-exists-and-the-israeli-press-split.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "7 → 12", "measures": "US states reporting water-utility incidents, 2–6 August 2026", "headline": "Five More States Joined the Water-Utility Count in Four Days, and No Agency Named the Actor", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-five-more-states-joined-the-water-utility-count-in-four-days.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "4 months", "measures": "Age of the EPA joint advisory ranking on this week’s water story", "headline": "A Late-July Advisory and an April One Are Circulating as Responses to This Week’s Intrusions", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-07-late-july-advisory-and-an-april-one-are-circulating-as.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "−10.13%", "measures": "Brent’s five-day move as of 06:08 on 6 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"sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "0", "measures": "pieces of evidence published for the ceasefire violation Israel cited as cause", "headline": "Two Reservists Killed at Majdal Zoun, and Israel’s Stated Cause Went Unevidenced in Every Wire", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-06-two-reservists-killed-at-majdal-zoun-and-israels-stated-cause.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "3", "measures": "English renderings of the same Hebrew Netanyahu video, none published alongside the original", "headline": "Netanyahu Says He Never Agreed to the Gaza Plan, and Three Outlets Translate Him Three Ways", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-06-netanyahu-says-he-never-agreed-to-the-gaza-plan-and-three.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "2", "measures": "Israeli newsrooms whose doors were smashed in the past month", "headline": "Two Israeli Newsrooms Have Had Their Doors Smashed and One Assailant Left a Note", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-06-two-israeli-newsrooms-have-had-their-doors-smashed-and-one.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "5", "measures": "states named publicly, out of a reported 12", "headline": "Seven States Became Twelve in Six Days, and No Federal Document Has Named Iran", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-06-seven-states-became-twelve-in-six-days-and-no-federal-document.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "22 July", "measures": "last update to the advisory being cited as this week’s response", "headline": "The Advisory Being Shared as This Week’s Federal Response Was Written in April", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-06-advisory-being-shared-as-this-weeks-federal-response-was.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "743", "measures": "Vessels through Hormuz since the MoU signing, as of 1 August (JMIC)", "headline": "Qatar Confirms Drafts Are Circulating; Tehran Says the Strait Will Not Return to February", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-05-qatar-confirms-drafts-are-circulating-tehran-says-the-strait.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "452", "measures": "Pre-war US THAAD interceptors (CSIS estimate cited by CNN); ~80% now reported expended", "headline": "Two Anonymous Sources Say 80% of THAAD Is Spent; an Iranian General Says Tehran Restocked", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-05-two-anonymous-sources-say-80-of-thaad-is-spent-an-iranian.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "$178m", "measures": "claimed mining contribution to Mali’s infrastructure fund, period unstated", "headline": "Mali Says Mining Paid $178 Million Into a New Infrastructure Fund, With No Dates Attached", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-05-mali-says-mining-paid-178-million-into-a-new-infrastructure.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "2M+", "measures": "displaced in Burkina Faso, per Human Rights Watch", "headline": "Two Outlets Audited Traoré's Record on the Same Day and Neither Dated the Quote They Used", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-05-two-outlets-audited-traor-s-record-on-the-same-day-and-neither.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "$1bn", "measures": "the 2025 Sudan–UAE gold trade, per an Emirati official cited by the FT", "headline": "An Emirati Official Puts the 2025 Sudan Gold Trade 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-05-three-witnesses-all-for-designation-and-five-democrats-who-say.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "3", "measures": "Outlets that carried “no date confirmed” from one tracker’s read of a stale webpage", "headline": "Two Egyptian Outlets Spent the Weekend Telling Readers the Hearing Might Not Happen", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-05-two-egyptian-outlets-spent-the-weekend-telling-readers-the.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "2", "measures": "Men simultaneously claiming acting General Guide, per the Egyptian outlet Manassa", "headline": "Treasury’s Primary Record Names a Secretary General; Cairo Reporting Says Two Men Claim the Top Job", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-05-treasurys-primary-record-names-a-secretary-general-cairo.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "4", "measures": "Western headlines on the same talks, four different actors in the grammatical subject", "headline": "Four Newsrooms Put Four Different Actors in the Subject of the Same Hormuz Sentence", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-05-four-newsrooms-put-four-different-actors-in-the-subject-of-the.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "5 days", "measures": "between the synchronised deal announced 30 July and the Board’s 3 August resequencing", "headline": "The Board of Peace Resequenced Gaza in Five Days and Only Haaretz Put the Reversal in the Dek", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-05-board-of-peace-resequenced-gaza-in-five-days-and-only-haaretz.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "60%", "measures": "of Gaza Israel 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-04-plan-international-called-el-obeid-near-catastrophe-six-days.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-04", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "77", "measures": "Days between the postponed 20 May listing and Wednesday’s re-listing", "headline": "The Senate’s Brotherhood Hearing Sits on Tomorrow’s Calendar With No Witness List Posted", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-04-senates-brotherhood-hearing-sits-on-tomorrows-calendar-with-no.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-08-04", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "4", "measures": "Chapters designated on the record: Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan", "headline": "A Truncated Snippet Says Treasury Sanctioned Brotherhood Fundraising in July; No Primary Record Confirms It", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-04-truncated-snippet-says-treasury-sanctioned-brotherhood.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-04", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "1 min", "measures": "between the Post’s credulous AP wire headline and its own sceptical staff headline on 3 August", "headline": "The Same AP Story Ran as “Says” in the Post and “Claims” at PBS Hours Later", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-04-same-ap-story-ran-as-says-in-the-post-and-claims-at-pbs-hours.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-04", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "0", "measures": "mentions of Oman in the nine US wire and network headlines retrieved for 2–3 August", "headline": "Nine American Headlines Covered a Negotiation Whose Only Confirmed Party Is Oman", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-04-nine-american-headlines-covered-a-negotiation-whose-only.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-04", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "2", "measures": "Gazans killed, per the last clause of Haaretz’s 3 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-03-sudans-army-says-an-rsf-unit-surrendered-in-omdurman-and.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-03", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "400 km", "measures": "Omdurman–El Obeid corridor reported as secured, six days after the army only “claimed” the highway", "headline": "Al Jazeera Said the Army Claimed the El Obeid Highway; Six Days Later It Was Being Reported as Secured", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-08-03-al-jazeera-said-the-army-claimed-the-el-obeid-highway-six-days.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-08-03", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "5", "measures": "legal organisations and firms listed as co-counsel against Florida’s designation law", "headline": "Florida’s Designation of CAIR Is Either Stayed or Upheld, Depending on Which Outlet You Read", "story": 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"Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "918", "measures": "civilians killed by Mali’s army and Russian paramilitaries in 2025, per ACLED", "headline": "Human Rights Watch Traced Africa Corps' Own Footage Back to the Village It Bombed", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-31-human-rights-watch-traced-africa-corps-own-footage-back-to-the.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-07-31", "desk": "Sahel Monitor", "deskId": "sahel", "value": "15", "measures": "months of ruptured Algeria–Mali relations the 10 July announcement claims to end", "headline": "Algiers and Bamako Said Three Weeks Ago They Would Send Their Ambassadors Back", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-31-algiers-and-bamako-said-three-weeks-ago-they-would-send-their.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-07-31", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "45", "measures": "civilians killed in 15 drone strikes on El Obeid in three weeks (OHCHR, 3 July)", "headline": "Bara Has 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"https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-31-treasury-says-uk-based-ynet-says-austrian-fdd-says-egyptian.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-31", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "31", "measures": "of 138 seats won in Jordan’s 2024 election, per CNN Arabic", "headline": "Jordan Legislated Its Brotherhood Party Into a New Name, and the First Leadership Vote Is Weeks Away", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-31-jordan-legislated-its-brotherhood-party-into-a-new-name-and.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-07-31", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "1", "measures": "of 16 headlines reviewed put the disarmament–withdrawal contradiction above the fold", "headline": "Trump, His Own Board of Peace and Hamas Published Three Different Orders of Operations", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-31-trump-his-own-board-of-peace-and-hamas-published-three.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-31", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "3", "measures": "different death tolls published for the same overnight Gaza strikes", "headline": "Al Jazeera Changed Its Headline Twice in Two Hours and the Original Survives in the URL", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-31-al-jazeera-changed-its-headline-twice-in-two-hours-and-the.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-07-31", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "0", "measures": "Officials attributing the Minnesota intrusion on the record", "headline": "Five American Outlets Put Iran Behind the Minnesota Water Hack, and No Official Signed It", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-31-five-american-outlets-put-iran-behind-the-minnesota-water-hack.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-31", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "4 days", "measures": "Between the CISA advisory update and the Minnesota intrusion", "headline": "The Advisory Being Shared as Thursday News Was Updated on the Twenty-Second of July", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-31-advisory-being-shared-as-thursday-news-was-updated-on-the.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "05:00", "measures": "GST Thursday, when CENTCOM’s “heavy wave” finished", "headline": "CENTCOM’s Reply Fell on Bandar Abbas and Kish at Five in the Morning Gulf Time", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-centcoms-reply-fell-on-bandar-abbas-and-kish-at-five-in-the.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "$120.88", "measures": "Brent’s 52-week intraday high, set 30 April — three months ago today", "headline": "Riyadh Says It Intercepted the Drones, and a Copernicus Satellite Shows an Oil Facility Burning", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-riyadh-says-it-intercepted-the-drones-and-a-copernicus.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "4", "measures": "unidentified sources behind the UN Panel’s air-corridor finding", "headline": "A UN Draft Puts Fighters, Drones and Night Flights Into Nyala on Four Unnamed Sources", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-un-draft-puts-fighters-drones-and-night-flights-into-nyala-on.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "Sudan Crisis Monitor", "deskId": "sudan", "value": "0", "measures": "sides that offered to give up ground in their replies to Boulos", "headline": "Both Belligerents Have Now Answered Boulos, and Both Answers Turn on Who Leaves a City First", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-both-belligerents-have-now-answered-boulos-and-both-answers.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "4", "measures": "national Brotherhood chapters designated by the United States. Iraq is not one of them.", "headline": "A Partisan Think Tank Puts Iraq on the Brotherhood Map Six Days After Treasury Sanctioned London", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-partisan-think-tank-puts-iraq-on-the-brotherhood-map-six-days.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "The Brotherhood Brief", "deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "2", "measures": "Brotherhood officials named by FDD as the designations Washington should make next", "headline": "A Washington Advocacy Group Names the Two Brotherhood Officials It Wants Sanctioned Next", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-washington-advocacy-group-names-the-two-brotherhood-officials.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "30+", "measures": "Drone attacks claimed by CENTCOM in 72 hours, unverified by any outlet", "headline": "CENTCOM Wrote One Sentence About Eastern Iraq and Four American Outlets Built Their Headlines From It", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-centcom-wrote-one-sentence-about-eastern-iraq-and-four.html", "sourceCount": 4 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "20", "measures": "PMF members the force says were killed; 32 wounded", "headline": "The Only Photograph From Wednesday’s Strikes Was Taken in Mosul, Which Is Not in Eastern Iraq", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-only-photograph-from-wednesdays-strikes-was-taken-in-mosul.html", "sourceCount": 3 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "<8%", "measures": "US aid as a share of Israel’s 2026 defence budget, per AFP in May", "headline": "No White House Readout, So One Anonymous Israeli Official Wrote the Oval Office Record", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-no-white-house-readout-so-one-anonymous-israeli-official-wrote.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "16", "measures": "Minutes between ‘reportedly' and ‘US confirms' in the Times of Israel liveblog", "headline": "Sixteen Minutes Separated ‘Reportedly' From ‘Confirmed' the Night Washington Struck Iran", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-sixteen-minutes-separated-reportedly-from-confirmed-the-night.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "30+", "measures": "Minnesota water systems impacted, 26–27 July, One The state confirmed a coordinated attack on operational technology. It has not named an actor.The,, a real event: outages at Braham, an emergency declaration at Maple Plain, no water-quality impact anywhere. Second, a vendor suspicion travelling faster than the investigation. Vendors have commercial reasons to name Tehran within seventy-two hours; state CISOs have legal reasons not to. Watch whether any federal official goes on the record, and watch whether the vector holds: if this was a five-year-old unpatchable Rockwell flaw on internet-facing controllers, the story is about asset owners and the 70 percent non-compliance figure, not about the IRGC. That distinction will not survive the second week of retelling.here, one direction.diverge,allel here.on the by this coverage., in opposite directions.here here.here.this here.", "headline": "Minnesota Confirms 30 Water Systems Hit; No US Agency Will Name Who Did It", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-minnesota-confirms-30-water-systems-hit-no-us-agency-will-name.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-30", "desk": "Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "5 GB", "measures": "Cal Water data published on 11 June — billing records, not control systems", "headline": "The California Water Breach Being Cited This Week Happened in June, and Touched Billing, Not Controls", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-30-california-water-breach-being-cited-this-week-happened-in-june.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-07-29", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "8", "measures": "PMF members the force says were killed in joint US–Saudi 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"deskId": "brotherhood", "value": "1", "measures": "European state with an actual Brotherhood ban", "headline": "Europe Has Passed Resolutions on the Brotherhood for Two Years and Banned It Once, in 2021", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-29-europe-has-passed-resolutions-on-the-brotherhood-for-two-years.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-29", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "1", "measures": "Of the retrieved headlines that named the US–Saudi strike on Iraq", "headline": "CENTCOM Says It Shot Down Every Missile, and Only AP Puts the American Strike in the Headline", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-29-centcom-says-it-shot-down-every-missile-and-only-ap-puts-the.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-29", "desk": "Western Media Watch", "deskId": "westmedia", "value": "3", "measures": "Major outlets whose slug says diplomacy and whose headline says attack", "headline": "A New York Post Item With One Anonymous Source 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"Digital Front Monitor", "deskId": "digitalfront", "value": "2017", "measures": "Year the consortium says Pegasus reached Moroccan intelligence, in a Rabat villa", "headline": "A DGST Insider Says Pegasus Reached Rabat in a Villa in 2017, and Morocco Has Not Answered", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-27-dgst-insider-says-pegasus-reached-rabat-in-a-villa-in-2017-and.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-26", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "13", "measures": "consecutive nights of announced US strikes before the readouts stopped", "headline": "Two Nights Now Without a CENTCOM Readout — and That Is All Anyone Can Confirm", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-26-two-nights-now-without-a-centcom-readout-and-that-is-all.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-07-26", "desk": "Iran File", "deskId": "iran", "value": "2022", "measures": "the last time the Houthis struck Saudi oil facilities, until Saturday", "headline": "The Houthis Hit Saudi Oil 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"Fifty Soldiers Entered a Nablus Hospital and Not One Western Headline Said So", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-26-fifty-soldiers-entered-a-nablus-hospital-and-not-one-western.html", "sourceCount": 6 }, { "date": "2026-07-26", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "1,200+", "measures": "Patriot interceptors fired by late April, at over $4m each", "headline": "Trump Stops the Nightly Strikes Over Missing Interceptors — and Jerusalem Briefs Against the Pause", "story": "https://mefiles.news/story/2026-07-26-trump-stops-the-nightly-strikes-over-missing-interceptors-and.html", "sourceCount": 5 }, { "date": "2026-07-26", "desk": "Israel Press Review", "deskId": "israelpress", "value": "3", "measures": "West Bank mosques burned in eight days; no arrests reported", "headline": "The Army Revises Its Own Account of the Tell Killings as Two Mosques Burn Near Nablus and Tulkarm", "story": 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