Mapping Islamic militants’ increasing control of Iraq’s wheat
Iraq’s militants “now control yet another powerful economic weapon – wheat supplies,” Reuters’ Maggie Fick and Maha Dahan report. Fighters from the Islamic State have overrun large areas in five of Iraq’s most fertile provinces, where the United Nations food agency says around 40 percent of its wheat is grown:
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