"Before the war, I had a good life. [...] One day a shell fell at home. It killed my father and mother instantly." This is the testimony collected by Doctors Without Borders from Amna, a thirteen-year-old girl who now lives with her fifteen-year-old sister in the Tawila refugee camp in Darfur. Like her, 14 million people have been displaced to Sudan because of the war. Like her parents, about 150,000 people have died victims of the conflict.

They waited until the second day to flee. Experience, even in a war, counts for something. The first time Sara Ajami and her family had to leave their home, a small village near Tyre in southern Lebanon, due to Israeli shelling, they had to queue for 15 hours. In 2024, under the shadow of the Gaza war, Israel invaded Lebanon, thousands of people from the south had gathered on the roads leading north. This time, on March 2, under the shadow of the Iran war, Israel launched the offensive in Lebanon, Sara and her family stayed home one more night, exposing themselves to danger, to avoid the queues.

The doors of the Serena hotel, where the conversations between the United States and Iran have taken place in Islamabad –the capital of Pakistan– to end six weeks of war, were barricaded by cars and security agents. Inside, American and Iranian representatives have negotiated face-to-face accompanied by Pakistani mediators, as confirmed by the White House. The meeting was the highest-level direct contact the two powers have had since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Writing a diary in wartime often responds to the need to preserve humanity in the face of barbarism and to bring order to chaos. From Anna Frank's to Victor Klemperer's, these are documents for posterity and a portrait of daily life amidst the bombs. With the advent of the internet, these writings reach the world in real time. Now some Iranian citizens share their reflections daily with internet users in the midst of war. But if it is about the son of the president of Iran, his testimony has a special meaning.

"There is method in his madness," says Polonius, the king's advisor, referring to Hamlet. In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet pretends to be mad. But he only pretends to be so to gain time and prepare revenge against his father's murderer. With this metaphor, Christopher Tulloch, a professor of communication at Pompeu Fabra University, defines Donald Trump's communication strategy, also with the Iran war. In recent weeks, the official White House account has shared several videos on social media referring to video games like Call of Duty or Nintendo's Wii Sports. And with clips from movies like Braveheart, Superman or Top Gun. Frenetic scenes mixed with declassified images of attacks on Iranian facilities.

Who determines what is true? In the era of fake news, manipulated algorithms, and post-truth, a group of architects, journalists, engineers, and lawyers work together, putting technology at the service of facts. They call it forensic architecture and they dedicate themselves to reconstructing disputed events, from demonstrations to military attacks around the world. Since 2023, they have focused on Gaza, and their reports are used as evidence in South Africa's accusation against Israel at the International Court of Justice. We speak with Júlia Nueno, a researcher at Forensic Architecture, based in London, and editor of Genocides. A Forensic Reading (Galaxia Gutenberg).

"We were taken to an open field [...]. The first man raped me twice; the second, once, and the third, four more times. The fourth also raped me once". "All the way, the militiamen asked the women to follow them and insisted when we refused. It happened everywhere. In the woods: two militiamen there, three more after a while. They were everywhere. Everything happened in broad daylight".Testimonies as chilling as these are common in the Darfur region, in Sudan, where in a couple of weeks it will be three years since the country has been immersed in a devastating civil war.

When Tehran was attacked by US and Israeli drones and missiles on February 28, Iran's allies responded swiftly. Hezbollah, the Shiite armed group from Lebanon, did not wait. The moment Ali Jamenei's death was confirmed, it launched a barrage of over 90 rockets and drones at northern Israel and against the monitoring base on Mount Hermon, in Israel. Iraqi militias attacked the US embassy in Baghdad and forced an evacuation of diplomatic staff. Even Syrian militias – weakened since the fall of Bashar al-Assad – launched projectiles towards the border area with Turkey. But, until today, a key ally of the so-called axis of resistancehad refrained from formally entering the conflict: the Houthis of Yemen.

The French municipal elections this Sunday These were the last electoral test before the presidential elections scheduled for 2027, where the support base of the far right and the resilience of the main parties were tested in a fragmented political landscape marked by parliamentary instability. We've compiled some charts to help understand the results:

The doorbell keeps ringing. Another group has arrived. They descend a staircase decorated with rugs and mirrors and sit with the other diners, who were waiting for them. The restaurant El Rincón Persa is packed with Iranian families and groups of friends who have come to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, which coincides with the beginning of spring. With the clinking of cutlery in the background, many mouths devour aromatic rice dishes and stews while chatting happily. But behind the smiles, the unease is palpable: many have their minds elsewhere.

The world's largest natural gas field, located in the Persian Gulf, was struck on Wednesday, in a move that has escalated the conflict between Tehran, Israel, and the United StatesIranian authorities have warned that neighboring countries' energy facilities would be targeted by their missiles "in the coming hours." The attack affected the South Pars gas facility, part of the shared reserve between Iran and Qatar, which is crucial for Iranian exports.

Under pressure from a November election with a high cost of living and soaring inflation due to rising oil prices, the Trump administration is trying to sell the military campaign against Iran as an unprecedented success. But most of the independent press isn't buying it. While some journalists are wondering if Donald Trump did not foresee the economic impact that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz would have.Others question the thirteen American victims that have occurred so far or investigate the bombing of a girls' school. The White House's strategy has thus far been to belittle and discredit the press.

Early Saturday morning, the United States bombed Kharg Island, the nerve center of Iran's oil industry, from which it exports 90% of its crude. Donald Trump called the attacks the "most powerful" in the history of the Middle East and claimed they "annihilated" all military targets on the island, located in the northern Persian Gulf, about 25 kilometers off the Iranian coast.

On clear days, the mountains of Lebanon are visible on the horizon from the coast of Cyprus. This island, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, is geographically closer to the coasts of Syria, Gaza, and Turkey than to mainland Greece. Its strategic location, which makes it a key stronghold for the European Union (it is the easternmost point of the Union), also makes it more vulnerable to attack due to its military importance.

Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mokhtaba Khamenei, confirmed in a statement on Thursday that "the Strait of Hormuz must remain closed" to pressure "the enemies." It is his first speech since On Sunday, he succeeded his father, Ali Khamenei, in office.He was killed during the first day of the joint US-Israeli military operation against Iran. However, the state television that broadcast the statement showed only a black screen and a female voice reading the text. After being wounded in the war and with the US and Israel threatening to eliminate him as they did his father, Khamenei has not appeared before the Iranian people. But far from showing weakness, his words seem to reinforce his position as leader of a country united against the enemy. His speech has had an immediate impact on the markets: The price of oil has risen even more

The first foreign fatality of the Bosnian War was the Catalan photojournalist Jordi Pujol Puente, who had gone to cover the siege of Sarajevo with journalist Eric Hauck.TodayIt took thirty years for Hauck to recover this story. Lethal Amnesia (Folch&Folch, 2026), a "therapeutic exercise" in which he has poured his love for his beloved Balkans, from the experience of a conflict reporter, the knowledge of a seasoned diplomat, and the gratitude of'an honorary citizen of Sarajevo.

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu go launch a large-scale war against Iran a week ago, with unpredictable consequences. We have included key data about the Persian country in some charts, which explain its regional and global importance.

Under the alias "El Mencho," Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes hid, leader of one of the most powerful gangs in Mexico and one of the most wanted fugitives in the world. who died at age 59 in police custody this Sunday, after being shot by Mexican special forcesDespite the far-reaching tentacles of his power, the feared drug trafficker maintained a low profile in the eyes of the world: so much so that only three photographs of him, taken years ago, were known to exist. The United States offered a reward of 15 million dollars for any information leading to his arrest.

Vladimir Putin's Russian expansionism and Donald Trump's threat to abandon Europe in the face of new geopolitical challenges have triggered a surge in defense spending by European states. US demands on NATO have forced allies to allocate more resources to security, and, simultaneously, the European Union has launched an unprecedented plan to rapidly rearm the continent.

It's easy to be a pacifist when there is peace. But when war is at your doorstep, the decision becomes personal: how do you uphold the banner of nonviolence when you have the responsibility of defending your own home? How can you continue to defend this ideal when Russian expansionism is on the border of Europe, the United States has abandoned the defense of the continent, and has abdicated its role as guarantor of international law?