By Peter Schwartzstein, for National Geographic.
Iranian border guards have started scores of blazes along their shared frontier to clear their lines of sight along key cross-border smuggling routes.
Turkish airstrikes on militant camps have reduced tracts of forest to cinder.
Across the bone-dry mountains and flatlands, a potent combination of illegal logging and naturally occurring wildfires are consuming large chunks of whatever greenery bombs and bullets haven't torched.
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