Thick black plumes of acrid smoke towered high above India's Ahmedabad airport Thursday after a London-bound passenger jet ...

They've been referred to as the Agent Orange of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Burn pits were used by the United States military to dispose of rubbish including chemicals, plastics, rubber ...

After he was sent to Iraq in 2008, Beau Biden served at Balad Air Force Base, where as much as 200 tons of waste was burned every day in one of the country's largest burn pits, according to ...

Base commanders keep tabs on burn pits run by the Department of Defense ... Military veterans long complained of inhaling filthy air causing a range of debilitating conditions, and won a victory ...

An Afghan solider walks past debris left in a extinguished burn pit at an outpost in Kandahar Province ... than individuals not exposed to the toxic air, according to a new study based on recently ...

During his deployment, which continued into 2008, the base generated nearly 250 tons ... health care and benefits for Veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic substances.

Old uniforms are tossed into a burn pit at Balad Air Base in Iraq in 2008 to keep them from being used by enemy forces. A 2006 memo by an Air Force environmental officer described the Balad pit as ...

By John Ismay On bases established for America’s post-9/11 wars, the U.S. military’s trash was often burned in huge, open-air lots on ... time guarding a burn pit in Kandahar, but later ...

Ruiz had recently met Kepner, who attributed her pancreatic cancer to a single culprit: open-air burn pits used by U.S. forces overseas — including where she was deployed at a base in Iraq ...

It was a hole in the middle of the flight line at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait ... as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province ...

I visited Haj Ali, which is a pseudonym for a farmer who lived a mile and a half downwind from the Balad Air Base burn pit, in Yathrib. He had 52 cows that he was taking care of before the ...

101st Airborne Division recently deployed to the Pashmul area in the Zhari District of Kandahar... Two interpreters for Bravo troop dump their trash in the base's "burn pit." Bravo "Bonecrusher ...