Iraq: Iraq's Qayyara Oil Wells Still Burning Weeks after Start of Battle

Aug 26, 2016 | Rudaw
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After an operation that lasted more than two months Iraqi troops managed to reach the town of Qayyara on Thursday and expel its Islamic State (ISIS) occupiers. Qayyara, about 60km southeast of Mosul, lies on the western bank of the Tigris river and is considered strategic for its location on a Mosul-Baghdad-Erbil intersection.