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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iraqi forces recaptured the strategic town of Baiji Friday in a significant victory over the Islamic State group, as the UN accused the jihadists of crimes against humanity in neighbouring Syria.

Specialists prepare to examine a Yangtze River dolphin living in captivity in a Wuhan aquarium in this 2002 photo. * Photo: Associated Press / Xinhua, Hao Tongqian * 2006: Following a fruitless, ...

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 ...

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BAGHDAD, June 19 (UPI) --Who exactly is in control of Iraq's Baiji oil refinery remains unclear. The Iraqi government claims it regained control early Thursday. Eyewitnesses, however, said that ...

Iraqi forces entered and recaptured most of the country's largest refinery from Islamic State militants on Saturday. A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State said troops retook ...

U.S. officials are concerned about the role Iran is playing in battle Despite Iraqi statements the city of Baiji is free from ISIS, the United States believes only about half the town is in Iraqi ...