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Kuwaiti oil fires

The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by the Iraqi military setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil-filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 due to the advances of US-led coalition forces in the Gulf War.

Kuwaiti oil fires
Kuwaiti oil fires · United States Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1991
Where
Kuwait
Era
Contemporary

Topics

Gulf War1990 – 1991Kuwait633 CE – today

Before and after

Highway of Death1991Madrid Conference of 19911991Show on timeline

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