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after the fire sent black smoke billowing through the six-storey structure south of Kuwait City and injured dozens more. Most of oil-rich Kuwait's population of more than four million is made up ...

particularly after one example was used to put out a fire at the 168 Algyo oil well in 1968. Big Wind on the ground in Kuwait, extinguishing a burning oil well. Credit: Getty Images Decades later ...

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.

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and high levels of poisonous by-products in the air from the 1991 oil fires. Kuwait is a member of several treaties concerning the preservation of the environment. As of Feb. 27, 1975 Kuwait ...

WASHINGTON: Kuwait’s Ambassador to the United States Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah met US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on Wednesday, emphasizing the deep and longstanding partnership between Kuwait ...

But even before the British artillery unit left Kuwait, they were told the four oil and gas separation plants had been set on fire. Smith said the regiment's mission now was to "try and tackle ...

WASHINGTON, March 27: Kuwaiti Ambassador to the US, Sheikha Al-Zain Al-Sabah, met with US Secretary of Commerce Howard ...