Iraq/Islamic State: The Islamic State’s Toxic Farewell: Environmental Sabotage and Chronic Disease

Feb 4, 2018 | Tamer El-Ghobashy and Joby Warrick, Washington Post
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Militants detonated 25 oil wells in a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful effort to defend their terrain against Iraqi security forces in 2016 and wreck a prized national asset. For nine months, a thick, blinding cloud of smoke engulfed Qayyarah and the villages that surround it, turning people's skin and sheep's coats black from soot.