#qayyarah

[disease]

BURNING OIL WELLS IN QAYYARAH, IRAQ CENGIZ YAR | OCTOBER 26, 2016

“In their retreat late last summer, ISIS lit fire to oil wells in and around the city of Qayyarah. Despite many attempts to put them out, the fires burned for months and covered the city and surrounding countryside in clouds of thick black ash. The smoke trails could be seen from space and trailed for miles, shifting with the wind. Only recently were the last of the wells extinguished.”

[thesociologicalcinema]

A boy walks along a street near his home, while an oil well burns nearby. Many streets and neighborhoods in this area of Iraq look apocalyptic, with oil residue covering all surfaces, turning small streets into muddy oil slicks, yet children can still be seen everywhere playing outside. Isis fighters set dozens of these oil wells on fire before retreating from an advancing Iraqi Army. Many civilians stayed in their homes during the fight to retake the town and remain there today despite the lingering smoke, November 10, 2016. Photo credit: Nicole Tung — in Qayyarah subdistrict.

[asonginfragments]

“After a long drive from Erbil I arrived in the town of Qayyarah where oilfields had been set ablaze by retreating Isis fighters a few weeks earlier. The scene was incredibly surreal and felt more like a movie set than an actual real town. My fixer, a Kurd from Erbil, was concerned about security because Qayyarah is a Sunni town and Isis had only been pushed back a short while before – he strongly suspected that there may still be Isis sympathisers in the town.

“We gave ourselves 10 minutes on the ground shooting the fires before getting back in the car and leaving. Shortly after I started shooting, this boy cycled towards me, then stopped briefly and watched me. He seemed far more interested in what I was doing than the fire raging behind him and stared quite intently at me while I took his picture. After a few seconds he cycled off. He hung around for a bit, following us from a distance, then cycled off out of sight.”

Photographer: Carl Court

[winwinszituacio]

Gyerekek ISIS-től frissen felszabadítva #iraq #isis #kids #qayyarah #islamicstate (helyszín: Qayyarah, Ninawa, Iraq)

[worldnewsbreak]

These Oil Wells in Iraq Have Been Burning For Months

Several wells in Iraq’s Qayyara oilfield continue to burn six weeks after the US-backed Iraqi forces ousted ISIS militants from the town as part of their push on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, the oil ministry said on Wednesday. The militants torched oil wells in the region to help conceal their positions before fleeing ahead of the government advance into Qayyara, sending black smoke into the sky and oil pouring into main thoroughfares. Government efforts to put out the remaining oil fires are being hampered by ISIS shelling, and around nine of 15 wells were still ablaze, oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad said.

The fires “are creating pollution and presenting serious health risks,” the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in an update on the Mosul region. “Efforts to quell the flames have been impeded reportedly by several attempted attacks by armed groups, which also threaten the safety and sustainability of returns,” UNHCR said, referring to refugees trying to move back to homes from which they fled when ISIS overran the northern Iraqi region in 2014. Its two main oilfields, Qayyara and Najma, used to produce up to 30,000 barrels per day of heavy crude before it fell under control of the ultra-hardline jihadists.

[voiceofmigrants]

Mosul offensive is displacing many Iraqis

Iraqi families who were displaced by the ongoing operation against Islamic State, are photographed near Qayyarah, south of the city of Mosul. Hundreds of families have fled the heavy fighting around the city to seek safety in nearby towns.

[siennastewart2020]

The Iraqi Oil Ministry has announced the total amount of exports and revenues for the month of October 2019. The total amount of oil exports rose from September.

[architectureofdoom]

A large memorial statue dedicated to the martyred female fighters of Rojava overlooks a city roundabout. Kobanê, Kobanê Canton, Rojava, Syria, November 13, 2016.

A family watches from their rooftop as firefighters struggle to extinguish a wall of flames creeping closer to their home. Qayyarah, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, October 26, 2016.

From We Came From Fire by Joey Lawrence

[fapangel]

Turkey has deployed batteries of T-122 Sakarya in Idlib and surrounding province, incl. J-600T munitions. Turkey is doing more to protect their TFSA allies than the US did to protect the Kurds.

“On 4 March 2016, Army HIMARS fired rockets into Syria in support of Syrian rebels fighting ISIL for the first time, with the launchers based in neighboring Jordan.... On April 26, 2016, it was announced that the U.S. would be deploying the HIMARS in Turkey near the border with Syria as part of the battle with ISIL.[18] In early September, international media and the U.S. State Department reported a newly deployed HIMARS had engaged ISIL targets in Syria near the Turkish border... In October 2016, HIMARS were stationed at Qayyarah Airfield West, some 65 kilometers south of Mosul, taking part in the Battle of Mosul...  On June 14, 2017, a HIMARS was deployed at Al-Tanf Syria to support U.S.-backed rebels in the area...  On May 24, 2018, a HIMARS strike killed 50 Taliban fighters and leaders in Musa Qala, Afghanistan.[25] Three rockets struck the building within a 14-second timespan...  Starting in September 2018, US support forces have been coordinating with Syrian Democratic Forces fighting to defeat ISIS in east Syria in the Deir ez-Zor campaign. On a daily basis, they have struck ISIS positions with HIMARS rockets, sometimes using as many as 30 rockets per day.”

Super cool fucking story bro 

[juancarlosphotog]

A DECADE IN IMAGES/IMÁGENES DE UNA DÉCADA 
1 - Haiti cholera outbreak/Brote de cólera en Haití. 2 - Evangelical movement in El Salvador/La religion Evangelica en El Salvador. 3 - Gang member inside prison in El Salvador/ Pandillero dentro del penal en El Salvador. 4 - Latina Obama supporter in the United States/Seguidora latina del presidente Obama en Estados Unidos. 5 - Modeling school in Venenezuela/Escuela de modelaje en Venezuela. 6 - Marigold (cempasúchil) harvest during the day Of the day festivities in Mexico/Cultivo de la la “flor de veinte pétalos” (por sus raíces en lengua náhuatl cempasúchil) durante los festejos del Día de los Muertos. 7 - Iraqi child in the town of Al-Qayyarah during the battle for Mosul in Iraq/Niño Iraqi en el Pueblo de Al- Qayara durante la offensive de Mosul en Irak. 8 - Young protestors during the anti-government November demanding the ousting of president Juan Orlando Hernandez popularly known as JOH/Jóvenes manifestantes durante los disturbios políticos pidiendo la salida del president Juan Orlando Hernandez mejor conocido como JOH. 9 - Salvadoran migrants crossing the Suchiate river at the Guatemala/Mexico border as part of the Central American Migrant caravan trying to reach the USA for refuge/ Migrantes Salvadoreños cruzando el rio Suchiate en la frontera de Guatemala/Mexico parte de las caravana de Centroaméricanos quienes trataban de llegar a la frontera de los Estados Unidos para pedir refugio.
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[newsfind]

Qayyarah West and the deliberately obscured role of NZ troops in Iraq

Qayyarah West and the deliberately obscured role of NZ troops in Iraq

New Zealand’s military role in Iraq remains obscure and largely beyond public scrutiny, despite recent government claims to be more transparent, writes Harmeet Singh Sooden. 

Qayyarah West Airfield is a Coalition air base located in northern Iraq, approximately 60 km south of Mosul. The air base was recaptured from ISIS by Coalition forces in July 2016 and rehabilitated to serve as a logistics…

[wigmund]

From NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day; April 5, 2017:

The Oil Fires in Qayyarah Are Out

Several oil fires that have burned in northern Iraq for months have been extinguished. NASA satellites first detected fires at one or two wells near the towns of Qayyarah and Shargat in May 2016. Small fires continued to spring up intermittently throughout June. In July 2016, the number and volume of fires increased dramatically.

From July 2016 onward, satellites returned daily images showing clouds of thick, black smoke streaming from the Qayyarah oil field. For a period in October, black smoke from oil fires even mixed with a noxious white cloud of sulfur dioxide from a separate blaze at a factory.

By April 2017, Iraqi firefighters had put out the fires. NASA satellites last detected heat and smoke from the oil field on March 27, 2017. Iraq’s oil ministry made a formal announcement about the end of the fires on April 4, 2017. Of the 50 oil wells in the area, militants lit 18 of them on fire, according to Rudaw.

The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured these false-color images on January 24, 2017, and March 29, 2017. The images combine shortwave-infrared, near-infrared, and green light (OLI bands 6-5-3) to show active fires (bright red) and smoke (black). The vegetation (green) in the March 29 image is the product of spring plant growth.

References and Further Reading:

NASA Earth Observatory (2016, September 2) Oil Fires in Iraq.

Reliefweb (2017, January 12) Iraq: Fires at the Al Qayyarah Oil Field, Nineveh Governorate, between 18 July 2016 and 7 January 2017. Accessed April 4, 2017.

Rudaw (2017, April 2) At last, burning Qayyarah oil wells brought under control. Accessed April 4, 2017.

Time (2017, March 16) Meet the Iraqi Firefighters Battling ISIS’ Oil Fires. Accessed April 4, 2017.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland. Instrument(s): Landsat 8 - OLI

[samkimball11]

Crossing the #Tigris River on a pontoon bridge, in #qayyarah, #Iraq. (at Qayyarah subdistrict)

[worldnewsbreak]

When the Oil Fields Burned

Firefighters try to extinguish an oil fire as smoke billows from one of the remaining wells set ablaze by Islamic State in their retreat from Qayyarah.

[voiceofmigrants]

Time to Rethink Approach to Iraq's Displacement Crisis

Families displaced by the ongoing operation by Iraqi and Kurdish forces against Isis fighters in and around Mosul wait near the town of Qayyarah, 18 miles south of Iraq’s second-largest city