Simply burning the oil, a practice that had been used with ... It is surpassed only by the intentional 1991 gulf war spill in Kuwait. The Ixtoc spill devastated local fisheries and economies.

Iraq released millions of barrels of oil into the Persian ... a trustee of the National Gulf Veterans Association. Shaun Rusling: ‘It was the morning of the ground war offensive; the sun simply ...

For the Middle East, which has been spared of tariffs (so far), there are still reasons to worry – as well as potential ...

These include burning oil fields, a reminder of the 700 Kuwaiti oil wells set ablaze by retreating Iraqi forces during the ...

The Gulf region, for instance ... But the blow to growth from a trade war is likely to hurt the price of oil, the mainstay of the region's economy. There are also immediate costs to countries ...