Iraq: Iraq Races to Save Last of Middle East's Forests from Burning

Jul 22, 2019 | Peter Schwartzstein, National Geographic
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Iraq is on fire, and Aram Ismail has no idea how to stanch the flames. As a 12-year veteran of the Iraqi Kurdish forest police, he and his unit are supposed to guard a Long Island-sized slice of rugged wilderness. But the fires are too fierce and too numerous.