Known in military jargon as a ‘burn pit’, it was where jet fuel was used, day and night, to set fire to all manner of hazardous waste material – from used tired, vehicle parts, ammunition ...

As Washington refocuses on the issue of burn pits—waste fires used extensively in Afghanistan and Iraq which emitted toxic smoke that later sickened troops—Military Times is republishing our ...

The Biden administration expanded benefits for veterans with cancer believed to be linked to burn pits where tens of thousands of service members were exposed to toxic waste. The new step ...

The thousands of U.S. military personnel and private contractors whose health was compromised by the dense black smoke of burn pits — and ... into the air after trash and other waste were ...

human waste, plastics, tires, electronics, paint cans, routine garbage and clouds of muck that came off the big burn pit at Camp Victory and other U.S. bases in Iraq. For more on his testimony ...