WASHINGTON — A thick and sticky blanket of oil spreading over the Persian Gulf could devastate ... billion gallons of crude oil into the gulf. An oil spill expert in Bahrain told The Sun that ...

black slicks in the Persian Gulf. It remained unclear where the spill originated, though Kuwait said it didn't look as if the spill came from its oil fields. Authorities offered no estimate for ...

An oil slick spreading across the Persian Gulf endangers wildlife populations already teetering from the effects of previous spills. Onshore, columns of smoke rise from Kuwait’s oil wells ...

The worst was the oil spill into the Persian Gulf as a result of the 1991 Gulf War against Saddam Hussein's Iraq when Iraqi troops opened the Kuwaiti oil field valves which allowed as much as an ...

Iraqi forces in 1991 tried to avert an amphibious assault by the U.S. Marines by dumping an estimated 5.7 million barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf, making it the worst oil spill of its kind in ...

The Deepwater Horizon is the worst accidental oil spill in human history. The Worst: The Persian Gulf War Spill The worst deliberate spill occurred in the Persian Gulf in 1991. The previous August ...

Kuwait battled Sunday to control an oil spill off its southern coast that stained its beaches, threatened to damage power plants and water stations, and left long black slicks in the Persian Gulf.