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 …

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 …

Archaeologists find new evidence of ancient slave labor in southern Iraq

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 …

Iraq unearths six mass graves in al-Anbar

2025-06-02T11:45:04+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News/ Iraq has finished excavating six mass graves in al-Anbar province, uncovering remains of victims executed during various periods of violence, the Martyrs Foundation reported on …

Iraq's Anti-Corruption pledges close monitoring of campaign finances

2025-06-02T11:20:48+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News/ Iraq’s anti-corruption chief on Monday warned against the misuse of public funds in electoral campaigns, as the country gears up for parliamentary elections in November. During a …

Iraq-Iran talks to discuss implementation of judicial agreements

2025-06-02T09:52:28+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News/ Iraq’s Ministry of Justice announced on Monday that a joint technical committee with its Iranian counterpart is “under consideration” to follow up on the implementation of …