Syria Kurds alarmed as fire ravages wheat near oil installations
16 June 2019 |
3:26 pm
Wheat growers in northeast Syria battle a blaze in an agricultural field near oil installations in the town of al-Qahtaniyah, in the Hasakeh province near the Syrian-Turkish border as fires have ravaged through vital wheat fields in the latest of such blazes nationwide.
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