Latest coverage of the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Created
13 October 2023 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
International news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 95% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
34 measurements spanning 43 days, net -440. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 57,169–57,766 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 34
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
19 Sept 2026, 09:40
57,257
-33
16 Sept 2026, 19:41
57,290
+9
15 Sept 2026, 01:37
57,281
+3
13 Sept 2026, 08:41
57,278
+40
11 Sept 2026, 10:00
57,238
-1
8 Sept 2026, 18:00
57,239
-66
5 Sept 2026, 09:58
57,305
-29
3 Sept 2026, 10:44
57,334
-22
2 Sept 2026, 03:15
57,356
+9
1 Sept 2026, 02:46
57,347
-18
31 Aug 2026, 05:13
57,365
-11
30 Aug 2026, 06:09
57,376
-16
29 Aug 2026, 08:45
57,392
-20
28 Aug 2026, 08:13
57,412
-9
27 Aug 2026, 11:46
57,421
-2
26 Aug 2026, 14:24
57,423
-20
25 Aug 2026, 15:23
57,443
-2
24 Aug 2026, 13:26
57,445
-8
22 Aug 2026, 20:13
57,453
-20
21 Aug 2026, 11:58
57,473
first reading
Engagement
274 posts held, back to 6 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 93 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
6.09%
avg views ÷ 57,257 subscribers
Avg views / post
3,490
92 posts measured
Reaction rate
2.09%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
92
of 274 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 18 September 2026
Posts held
274 (6 August 2026 – 18 September 2026)
Views total
320,730
Reactions total
6,708
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
21 Sept 2026, 02:55 UTC
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈11,200
Videos
≈11,000
Links
≈6,480
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 21 September 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Video runtime
6h 27m
Average length
1m 48s
Measured directly from 215 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
14,426 reactions across 273 posts, in 60 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 19.3% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
🤬
2,789
19.3%
❤
1,579
10.9%
💯
1,206
8.36%
🤮
1,154
8.00%
💩
991
6.87%
🖕
908
6.29%
👍
816
5.66%
🤡
793
5.50%
💔
694
4.81%
👏
649
4.50%
😢
414
2.87%
🤣
387
2.68%
😈
344
2.38%
🔥
302
2.09%
😡
189
1.31%
🤔
152
1.05%
😭
150
1.04%
🥱
143
0.991%
❤🔥
129
0.894%
🎉
93
0.645%
40 further kinds
544
3.77%
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 273 of the 274 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 14,426 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 274 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 18 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Why Israel's next government could be even more far-right
Israeli politicians briefly united last week to condemn the 'NAZA' documentary exposing the Israeli military's AI targeting system in Gaza.
Then, they went back to fighting with each other. With just over a month until the country's elections, what are they still arguing about? And has the far-right already won?
‘There is no genocide’: Congresswoman Haley Stevens challenged over Israel’s actions in Gaza
US Representative Haley Stevens walked away from questions about her support for Israel’s actions in Gaza, saying she is “proud to be a Zionist” while repeatedly rejecting claims that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Stevens support for Israel became a central issue in the recent Michigan Democratic Senate primary, wh…
How the Houthis ‘shattered' the government forces' moral
The Houthis "shattered" the morale of the Yemeni Armed Forces, which has been key in their successful advancements this week, said Ibrahim Jalal.
Speaking on MEE Live, Jalal, a policy advisor and senior Yemeni analyst, said that the group's ability to exploit fracturing among opposing forces secured their ability to press forward into taking more territory.
…
Francesca Albanese's take on UK sanctions of settlements, "Seismic Shift" | UNAPOLOGETIC
Francesca Albanese (@francesca.albanese.unsr.opt) spoke to @ashfaaqC and described the UK's decision to sanction settlement activity in the West Bank as "Of course, it's small, and of course it's little", she also said it was a "seismic shift" and that "this has been the strongest condemnation ever issued by the UK government"
…
Houthis 'don't care' about populations' needs: Mohammed Albasha
With 100,000 Yemenis displaced amid the recent Houthi territorial gains in Yemen and Saudi strikes, an existing humanitarian crisis has only been compounded.
Speaking to MEE Live, Mohammed Albasha of Basha Report, a Yemeni-American analyst, said that he Houthis focus more on generating income for their military operations than meeting the needs of the …
At least 21 dead after Israeli-hit building collapses in Gaza
A building in Gaza previously hit by Israeli forces collapsed on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people, as dozens more remained trapped under the rubble.
The Palestinian Civil Defence, Gaza's emergency and rescue agency, said the six-storey residential building on al-Sinaa Street in western Gaza City collapsed suddenly while residents were sleeping insid…
Netanyahu calls to strip citizenship of those who 'defame' Israeli army
In a video posted on his social media, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the stripping of citizenship from those who "defame" the Israeli army.
His comments reflect anger from the Israeli government over the documentary NAZA, which featured soldiers testifying to the commission of war crimes in Gaza.
Houthis release footage of downed Saudi jet
The Houthis say they shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet over Marib province, using a locally made surface-to-air missile, while the jet was carrying out strikes in support of Saudi-backed forces. Footage released by the Houthis' Ansar Allah Media Centre shows burning wreckage in the desert, with fighters posing next to a piece of the plane appearing to show a Saudi flag.
…
Wearing a hijab does not mean a woman needs ‘rescuing’| Soumaya Ghannoushi | MEE Opinion
Soumaya Ghannoushi, a writer and expert in Middle East politics, argues that Western narratives about “rescuing” Muslim women often deny them the very agency they claim to defend.
In this Op-ed, Ghannoushi challenges the assumption that wearing the hijab is inherently a sign of oppression, pointing to histories of both compulso…
How did the Houthis seize Bab el-Mandeb?
In a lightning offensive, Yemen's Houthi rebels swept down the country's western coast and seized key points around the vital Bab el-Mandeb strait.
But how did Yemen's armed forces collapse so quickly? And what does it mean for the balance of power inside the country?
Reel 3: Real Talk TrackAIPAC
"They authorised a $730 million PR budget to go and rescue their international image."
Cory Archibald and Casey Kennedy, co-founders of Track AIPAC, join Mohamed Hashem in this latest episode of Real Talk on tracking AIPAC's money in US politics - and how the lobby, and the Israeli government responded.
'Symbolic' UK sanctions on Israel aim to avoid Washington's wrath
UK imposes symbolic sanctions on Israel, avoiding US backlash; move comes amid shift in Labour leadership under PM Andy Burnham, who has offered an apology for Labour's handling of Gaza and prohibited British companies from investing in illegal West Bank settlements.
🖕32👍10🤔7💩3😁2❤1🔥1
Showing the 12 most recent of 274 posts we hold for @MiddleEastEye_TG. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Posts edited after publishing
@MiddleEastEye_TG edited 2 posts after it first published — the same permalink now carries different wording than the one this register originally read, caught because our own crawl held a copy of the earlier text.
An edit is not deception. Typo fixes, price updates and corrections look exactly like this too — this register can tell you the wording changed and when, not why. How this is measured.
First edit seen
9 August 2026
Most recent edit
9 September 2026
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Mentions
Named by 2 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
Dead references
3
handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
Evidenced gone
0
we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
Never seen alive
3
vacant every time we have ever looked
@MiddleEastEye_TG named 3 handles that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
@rnatourious named in 4 posts, 3 September 2026 – 8 September 2026
@ashfaaqc named in 3 posts, 9 August 2026 – 11 August 2026
@mathildamall named in 1 post, 14 August 2026 – 14 August 2026
Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 23 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
Al Jazeera English @aljazeeraglobal · 27,023 Telegram ranks this channel #1 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 11 September 2026
Freedom Flotilla Coalition @FFC_official_channel · 76,877 Telegram ranks this channel #2 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 31 August 2026
Eye On Palestine @Eyeonpalestine2 · 38,469 Telegram ranks this channel #2 of 67 here — alongside 66 others — read 31 August 2026
Quds News Network @QudsNen · 113,733 Telegram ranks this channel #2 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 14 August 2026
Shaun King @ShaunKingChannel · 53,852 Telegram ranks this channel #3 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 31 August 2026
Al Jazeera World News @aljazeera_world · 30,430 Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 7 September 2026
GAZA NOW IN ENGLISH @gazaalanpa · 175,159 Telegram ranks this channel #5 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 12 August 2026
IRNA News Agency 🇮🇷 @Irna_en · 25,975 Telegram ranks this channel #8 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 13 September 2026
The Cradle @thecradlemedia · 56,087 Telegram ranks this channel #10 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 23 August 2026
Middle East Observer @me_observer_TG · 38,704 Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 31 August 2026
Press TV @presstv · 93,178 Telegram ranks this channel #19 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 16 August 2026
WarfareAnalysis News @WarfareAnalysis · 31,625 Telegram ranks this channel #20 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 5 September 2026
FRANCE 24 English @France24_en · 24,338 Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 16 September 2026
Megatron @megatron_ron · 76,161 Telegram ranks this channel #23 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 19 August 2026
Global News Monitor @warmonitors · 152,372 Telegram ranks this channel #25 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 12 August 2026
The Times of Israel @TheTimesOfIsrael2022 · 30,248 Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 88 here — alongside 87 others — read 7 September 2026
Lebanese News and Updates @LebUpdate · 77,516 Telegram ranks this channel #32 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 19 August 2026
Terkini dan Sensasi Palestin @cintagaza · 118,245 Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 14 August 2026
Middle East Spectator — MES @middle_east_spectator · 404,186 Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 10 August 2026
AlHaq News | Iran-US War Updates @AlHaqNews · 32,145 Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 5 September 2026
SAVE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇲🇾 @Save_Palestin · 128,534 Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 13 August 2026
The Jerusalem Post @The_Jerusalem_Post · 22,478 Telegram ranks this channel #36 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 20 September 2026
ResistanceTrench mirror @RezistanceTrench · 42,510 Telegram ranks this channel #36 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 29 August 2026
Fotros Resistance @FotrosResistancee · 69,023 Telegram ranks this channel #36 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 20 August 2026
This channel appears in 38 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Middle East Eye” (@MiddleEastEye_TG), 57,257 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/MiddleEastEye_TG.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.