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 ...

Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) on Tuesday confirmed the environmental and human safety following two minor fires ‏‏that broke out in al Ahmadi and Abdullah Port refineries last night.‏ ...

Here are six important facts you should know about it. F-16A, F-15C and F-15E aircraft fly over Kuwaiti oil fires set by the retreating Iraqi army during Desert Storm. (U.S. Air Force photo ...

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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.