Iraq, BP Strengthen Media Coordination

The Chairman of Iraq’s Media and Communications Board, Dr Nouvel Aborghev, met with Mr Zaid Al-Yasri, Director of British Petroleum (BP) in Iraq, to discuss ways to strengthen coordination on media, communications, and digital systems in the oil sector, …

Big Oil Is Fueling a Rise in Cancer in Iraq’s Basra

In Aradah, a southern Iraqi town of just over 50,000 people, the end of the day arrives quietly, veiled in a haze that seems to rise from the earth itself. The sun lingers low and heavy, casting long shadows across the dusty lanes. The smell of sun-warmed …

New evidence of ancient slave labour in southern Iraq

Photo: AP Photo/Jaafar Jotheri Archaeologists work at an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned several centuries, near Basra, …

Iran, Iraq justice ministers meeting in Tehran

TEHRAN, Jun. 02 (MNA) – Iranian Justice Minister Amin Hossein Rahimi met and held talks with his Iraqi counterpart Khaled Shwani in Tehran on Monday to develop legal and judicial relations between Tehran and Baghdad.

Iraq Archaeology

An aerial photo shows archaeologists working at an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned several centuries, near Basra, Iraq, …

Iraq Archaeology

An aerial photo shows an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned several centuries, near Basra, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022.

Archaeologists find new evidence of ancient slave labor in southern Iraq

The enslaved people from that era are known today as the “Zanj,” a medieval Arabic term for the East African Swahili coast, although there are different theories about where in Africa most of them actually came from. They carried out a large-scale revolt …

Archaeologists find new evidence of ancient slave labor in southern Iraq

Iran launches trade policy council for Iraq as private sector eyes major investments

TEHRAN – Iran's private sector is ready to boost its investment presence in Iraq, senior officials from the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) said during a joint meeting with Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran. The meeting …

Photos: Iraq probes fish die-off in marshes

Iraqi authorities have opened an investigation into a mass die-off of fish in the country’s central and southern marshlands, the latest in a series of such incidents in recent years. One possible cause for the devastation is a shortage of oxygen, triggered …