A huge fire has broken out at an oil refinery in Erbil, in northern Iraq. Video shows plumes of smoke billowing into the air, as the fire engulfs a warehouse building. Around a dozen firefighters ...
A massive fire at an oil refinery in Iraqi Kurdistan has injured at least 10 people, including firefighters who are actively battling the blaze, the civil defense agency reported on Thursday.
Meanwhile Iraqi forces also blew up hundreds of oil wells, burning through as many as one billion barrels as fires blazed throughout the year. Photojournalist Steve McCurry was in Kuwait in 1991.
Hussein Julood alleges the burning off of gas at a BP-run oil field in Iraq - a practice known as flaring - caused his son Ali's leukaemia. A BBC World Service investigation in 2022 found Ali's ...