The Spokesman of Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaidah, thanked only 4 countries in his speech: H 'I extend my special thanks to the truthful brothers of Ansarallah in Yemen, who showed extreme courage and implemented the will of the Prophet. And to the blessed people of Yemen, who possess the strongest wisdom and faith, and who are like our people of Gaza in their greatness and pride. We salute our brothers on the…

Channel
Middle East affairs
@middleeastaffair
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Handles named that no longer answer · Cite this entry
1subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002480725507 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @middleeastaffair |
| Created | Between 1 September 2024 and 6 November 2024— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 15 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/middleeastaffair |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Aug 2026, 05:15 | 1 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 14:01 | 1 | first reading |
Engagement
18 posts held, back to 6 November 2024 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 18 posts for this entry, the most recent from 20 January 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Photos
- 5
- Videos
- 14
- Links
- 2
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 15 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
- Video runtime
- 3m 07s
- Average length
- 27s
Measured directly from 7 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.
Recent posts
Less than 6 hours after Assad is deposed, and Israel already occupies a part of Syria. We knew this was coming.
— 🇮🇱 NEW: The IDF has set up checkpoints along the Golan, and all agricultural areas adjacent to the border with Syria have been declared closed military zones. @Middle_East_Spectator
Martyr Yahya Sinwar: "We are against any aggression against Syria, Iran and Hezbollah" 🔗Huma Zehra ⚜️@SNNenglish
That’s a BIG warhead: Syrian rebel drone strike on Assad regime target.
'Do not feel lonely on the path of guidance because of the small number of its followers' – Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (عليه السلام)
Video, posted without a caption
It is currently unknown if these Iraqi units are being sent to fight in Syria, or simply to strengthen the border to prevent any terrorists from entering Iraqi territory.
— ❗️🇸🇾/ 🇸🇾 NEW: A source in Hama tells us that the majority of the city has not fallen to HTS, the SAA is sending in reinforcements, but HTS is present in the North-East of the city in Jebrin and Al-Sawaeq neighbourhood (green circle) @Middle_Easr_Spectator
— ❗️🇸🇾/ 🇸🇾 NEW: HTS fighters have entered Hama outskirts, the battle for the city has begun @Middle_East_Spectator
— ❗️🇸🇾 BREAKING: Gunfire is heard in Damascus, the capital of Syria Some observers state clashes between different factions of the SAA, possibly a military coup led by the Republican Guard. @Middle_East_Spectator
— ❗️🇸🇾/🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi will land in Damascus tomorrow to meet with Assas personally, and the Syrian Foreign Minister @Middle_East_Spectator
Showing the 12 most recent of 18 posts we hold for @middleeastaffair. 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
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
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
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
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
- 2
- 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
- 2
- vacant every time we have ever looked
@middleeastaffair named 2 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.
named in 1 post, 16 August 2026 – 16 August 2026
named in 1 post, 16 August 2026 – 16 August 2026
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 15 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Middle East affairs” (@middleeastaffair), 1 subscribers as measured 15 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/middleeastaffair.
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.