TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces and Shi'ite militia fighters recaptured most of the country’s largest oil refinery from Islamic State militants on Thursday, security officials said. The report ...

I'm feeling a bit empty. The experts who have been following the fate of fewer than a dozen freshwater dolphins left in China's vast Yangtze River have declared them lost and the species extinct.

Iraqi Shiite militias and federal police wrested control of Baiji city centre from Islamic State militants on Sunday after weeks of intense fighting, Shiite fighters told FRANCE 24 as they made their ...

After a short illness spurred by pollution, overfishing, boat traffic, and obstructions like dams, the Baiji was declared ‘functionally extinct’ last night. As a species, the river dolphin found only ...

It has been more than 20 years since the last confirmed sighting of a wild baiji. These river dolphins are the first cetaceans (the mammal group that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises) to have ...

BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhua) -- More than a decade has passed since the Chinese baiji dolphin, or Lipotes vexillifer, was declared "functionally extinct." Yet a recent image of the long-missing "Goddess of ...

Reporting from Baiji, Iraq — The three Iraqi security force members were perched atop a bridge overlooking the highway bisecting the remains of former boomtown Baiji, shooing away any vehicle without ...

The oil refinery complex in Iraqi city of Baiji is severely damaged and barely working, a Pentagon official said Monday, as the facility remains contested between Iraqi forces and Daesh militants.

Al-Mazraa is a dusty village just south of Baiji, where a battle is raging between ISIS fighters and pro-government Iraqi forces trying to push them out. Under normal circumstances it’s a sleepy ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents battled Iraqi forces in the center of Baiji on Tuesday, a week after the army broke their prolonged siege of the country's largest oil refinery just ...

Despite Iraqi statements the city of Baiji is free from ISIS, the United States believes only about half the town is in Iraqi hands, according to a U.S. official with access to the latest intelligence ...