Islamic World News is an independent media group dedicated to tracking regional events and providing precise, in-depth analysis. We aim to tell the untold and present a new lens on developments across the region.
english.ISWNews.com
Created
17 January 2019 — 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-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 96% 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 the other topics.
Previous handles
Recorded in 2019 as “IWN” — the title held for this same channel (matched by Telegram id, not by handle) in the Pushshift Telegram Dataset, a third-party archive captured in 2019-2020, years before this register made its own first observation. CC BY 4.0, Baumgartner, Zannettou, Squire & Blackburn (2020), Zenodo. A third party’s dated snapshot, not a measurement this register made itself.
Growth
61 measurements spanning 93 days, net +765. 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 20,540–21,535 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 61
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
7 Nov 2026, 13:35
21,420
+15
6 Nov 2026, 12:36
21,405
+5
5 Nov 2026, 13:17
21,400
-7
4 Nov 2026, 15:56
21,407
+3
3 Nov 2026, 16:36
21,404
-7
2 Nov 2026, 19:47
21,411
+8
1 Nov 2026, 20:18
21,403
+12
31 Oct 2026, 19:57
21,391
+33
30 Oct 2026, 21:37
21,358
+37
29 Oct 2026, 20:19
21,321
-6
28 Oct 2026, 20:55
21,327
-4
27 Oct 2026, 18:27
21,331
+7
25 Oct 2026, 18:05
21,324
+1
24 Oct 2026, 15:31
21,323
+16
23 Oct 2026, 17:56
21,307
+27
22 Oct 2026, 20:45
21,280
-1
20 Oct 2026, 15:57
21,281
-9
19 Oct 2026, 17:09
21,290
-6
18 Oct 2026, 19:06
21,296
-2
17 Oct 2026, 20:40
21,298
first reading
Engagement
240 posts held, back to 2 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 70 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
4.78%
avg views ÷ 21,420 subscribers
Avg views / post
1,020
64 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.67%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
64
of 240 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. It is computed over the 62 of 64 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 7 November 2026
Posts held
240 (2 August 2026 – 7 November 2026)
Views total
65,590
Reactions total
1,083
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
8 Nov 2026, 03:01 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
≈9,820
Videos
≈3,780
Links
≈7,950
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 8 November 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
40m 56s
Average length
52s
Measured directly from 47 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
4,053 reactions across 233 posts, in 18 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 44.0% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
❤
1,783
44.0%
🔥
620
15.3%
👍
457
11.3%
🥰
363
8.96%
😡
270
6.66%
🫡
223
5.50%
😁
103
2.54%
👎
43
1.06%
😢
43
1.06%
🤔
41
1.01%
💔
30
0.74%
😍
26
0.642%
💯
21
0.518%
😎
7
0.173%
😐
7
0.173%
😭
6
0.148%
😱
6
0.148%
🤯
4
0.099%
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 233 of the 240 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 4,053 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 240 most recent posts we hold, published 2 August 2026 to 7 November 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.
Recent posts
Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 4 of 64 posts held from the last 30 days (6.25%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).
🇮🇷🇷🇺 The Meeting Between Major General Rezaei and Putin Lasted Three Hours
🟡Kazem Jalali, the Islamic Republic of Iran's ambassador to Moscow, detailed Rezaei's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying the session lasted three hours and covered various dimensions of the strategic cooperation between the two countries.
🔹 Referring to the topics raised in the meeting, Jalali said: Tehran's positions on A…
🇾🇪/🇸🇦🇸🇾 Agence France-Presse (AFP) has reported that thousands of mercenaries affiliated with al-Jolani are preparing to be deployed to conflict zones in Yemen to confront the Ansar Allah and strengthen the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council.
✍️ Undoubtedly, this is one of the outcomes of the recent visit by Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (Ahmed al-Shara), Syria’s interim president, to Riyadh, where he met with Sa…
🇺🇸🛰 One Billion Dollars for America's Satellite Communications Problem
According to media reports, satellites belonging to three major US military entities are unable to exchange information directly with one another because they use different communication standards, and solving this problem could cost up to one billion dollars.
➡️ This incompatibility exists among the satellites of SpaceX (SDN), the Space Develop…
🇩🇪✈️ Airbus has converted an A320 passenger aircraft into a radar test platform, with the nose and radome of a Eurofighter fighter jet replacing the front section of the standard A320 fuselage.
👉 The purpose of these modifications is to test the Eurofighter's new phased-array radar, called ECRS Mk1. The radar is set to be installed on Germany's and Spain's new fighter jets, and existing operational fighters will lat…
🇮🇷/🇺🇸 The United States has claimed that it intends to form a special operations task force to take measures aimed at restricting Iran's use of land routes and the Caspian Sea. According to Washington, this move is part of its plan to expand the blockade of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
#Iran #US
🇮🇶 Popular Protests Continue in Iraq Over the Closure of the al-Shaib Border Crossing
Al Mayadeen reported that Iraqi citizens in Maysan Governorate demonstrated again today to protest the continued closure of the Chazabeh border crossing. Chanting slogans, the protesters demanded that the crossing be reopened as soon as possible.
#Iraq
🇺🇸 X-BAT's First Flight Is on the Way
🔹 The American company Shield AI has unveiled the first full-scale prototype of its autonomous combat aircraft, the X-BAT, and plans to carry out its first test flight before the end of 2026. With its unconventional design, the aircraft has been developed for vertical takeoff and landing and is meant to operate without the need for a runway, from small ground surfaces and even f…
🇬🇧 A public demonstration called "Hands Off Iran" is set to take place today in front of the US Embassy in London, the capital of the United Kingdom.
#UK
🇺🇸 Earthquake in the White House: Possibility of Sweeping Changes in Trump's Cabinet
As internal rifts within the Republican Party widen following a heavy defeat in the elections, Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of changes among his cabinet members.
➡️ Meanwhile, The New York Times, pointing to the dismissal of the White House chief of staff, reported that one of the opponents of continuing the war wi…
🇮🇷/🇳🇿🇺🇸 Australian Prime Minister: I Told Trump the Time Has Come to De-escalate with Tehran
🔺 Following the Republicans' defeat in the US congressional midterm elections, Australia's prime minister urged the Trump administration to pursue a path of de-escalation with Iran.
🔺 Australia's ABC News reported that Anthony Albanese cited the war on Iran and the imposition of trade tariffs on America's economic partners …
😁6❤1🔥1
Showing the 12 most recent of 240 posts we hold for @iswnews_en. 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.
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 6 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.
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 25 September 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.
IRNA News Agency 🇮🇷 @Irna_en · 25,850 Telegram ranks this channel #12 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 13 September 2026
Martyr Ayatollah Khamenei @Khamenei_en · 21,258 Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 23 September 2026
Press TV @presstv · 92,671 Telegram ranks this channel #26 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 16 August 2026
AMK Mapping @AMK_Mapping · 61,232 Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 23 August 2026
Quds News Network @QudsNen · 111,746 Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 14 August 2026
War Monitor @warmonitors · 150,962 Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 12 August 2026
AlHaq News | Iran-US War Updates @AlHaqNews · 32,812 Telegram ranks this channel #29 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 5 September 2026
Stay Free @stayfreeworld · 40,796 Telegram ranks this channel #29 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 29 August 2026
War Noir @war_noir · 53,459 Telegram ranks this channel #29 of 75 here — alongside 74 others — read 24 August 2026
The Cradle @thecradlemedia · 55,683 Telegram ranks this channel #30 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 23 August 2026
"israel" is a War Criminal 🇵🇸 @wc_israel · 21,076 Telegram ranks this channel #32 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 24 September 2026
Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley · 21,746 Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 22 September 2026
ResistanceTrench mirror @RezistanceTrench · 42,665 Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 29 August 2026
Fotros Resistance @FotrosResistancee · 68,373 Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 20 August 2026
Tabz - Live News @tabzlive · 69,599 Telegram ranks this channel #36 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 21 August 2026
Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye_TG · 57,013 Telegram ranks this channel #38 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 23 August 2026
Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸 @rnintel · 161,013 Telegram ranks this channel #38 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 12 August 2026
JHArnous @jharnous · 26,335 Telegram ranks this channel #40 of 74 here — alongside 73 others — read 11 September 2026
Lebanese News and Updates @LebUpdate · 75,810 Telegram ranks this channel #41 of 80 here — alongside 79 others — read 19 August 2026
Middle East Spectator — MES @middle_east_spectator · 397,207 Telegram ranks this channel #41 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 10 August 2026
Awaitors Of Mahdi ❪؏❫ @AwaitorsOfMahdi · 22,619 Telegram ranks this channel #42 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 21 September 2026
WarfareAnalysis News 🔻 @WarfareAnalysis · 31,137 Telegram ranks this channel #43 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 5 September 2026
GAZA NOW IN ENGLISH @gazaalanpa · 170,497 Telegram ranks this channel #43 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 12 August 2026
Enemy Watch — Official @enemywatch · 28,905 Telegram ranks this channel #45 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 8 September 2026
This channel appears in 31 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 7 November 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Islamic World News” (@iswnews_en), 21,420 subscribers as measured 7 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/iswnews_en.
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.