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Transport workers and activists take part in a protest as they stage a strike over surging fuel costs on March 27, 2026 in Manila, Philippines. © Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

Iran: Distant Conflict Hits Close to Home

The Philippines continues to reel from rising fuel costs and uncertainty for overseas workers due to the Iran war.

An activist waves an Iranian flag as transport workers stage a strike over surging fuel costs on March 27, 2026 in Manila, Philippines. © Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

Fuel, Food and Fear: Philippines Faces Impact of Iran War

Conflict has sent shockwaves far beyond the Middle East, driving up oil prices, straining supply chains and interrupting crucial remittances.

Investigative journalist Nadia Mabrouk. © Photo courtesy of N. Mabrouk

World Press Freedom Day 2026

Egypt: Success at a Double Cost

Women journalists carry an extra burden to prove their competence.

Journalists stand atop a fuel tanker as they cover a nearby ongoing fire following an overnight airstrike on the Shahran oil refinery in northwestern Tehran on March 8, 2026. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, sparking swift retaliation by the Islamic republic which responded with missile attacks across the region. © AFP via Getty Images

World Press Freedom Day 2026

Iran’s Digital Darkness

“This war is simultaneously eroding fundamental pillars of press freedom: access to information, the ability to verify facts and the safety of journalists.”

An Israeli police officer and a woman look at a destroyed building after it was hit by a ballistic missile fired from Iran, leaving over 50 wounded residents on March 22, 2026 in Dimona, Israel. © Amir Levy/Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Israel: Truth Under Fire

In this week’s update, read about how the Iran war has exposed Israel’s vulnerability to disinformation.

Israeli security forces inspect damage at an apartment building struck by an Iranian missile on April 04, 2026 in Petah Tikva, Israel. © Erik Marmor/Getty Images

IRAN WAR/ANALYSIS

Israel: When the Sirens Sound, Fakes Follow

Amid conflict and polarisation, Israel's disinformation ecosystem now extends all the way to legacy media.

A woman weeps while talking on the phone near a residential building that was hit in an airstrike earlier in the day on March 30, 2026 in the west of Tehran, Iran. © Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

FRONTLINE UPDATE

Iran Conflict Shakes Syria

In this week’s update, read about how Syria’s fragile recovery is being impacted by the Iran war.

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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