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 ...

BEIRUT — Iraqi government forces have fully liberated the strategic Baiji refinery from Islamic State militants, state media said Saturday, and military reinforcements were reportedly arriving at the ...

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 Beirut — Iraqi government forces have fully liberated the strategic Baiji refinery from Islamic State militants, state media said Saturday, and military reinforcements were reportedly ...

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 ...

A view of Baiji oil refinery, north of Baghdad, December 8, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After declaring victory in the city of Tikrit, the next significant operation for Iraqi ...

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.

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Friday that the town of Baiji is free ...