It’s 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of Baiji oil refinery, north of Baghdad, December 8, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After declaring ...

Sunni insurgents have, by many accounts, gained control of Iraq's largest oil refinery -- a sprawling compound in the town of Baiji, near the militant-held city of Tikrit in the north -- but Iraqi ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robbins Barstow of Wethersfield was pained when he heard the news. The baiji, a rare, nearly blind white dolphin that existed for some 20 million years and lived in the Yangtze River in China, was ...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces regained most of a key oil refinery Saturday that ISIS militants had taken over earlier in the week, according to a senior Iraqi security official. The official told NBC News ...

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 ...