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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The baiji is gone. During six weeks of searching the Yangtze River, scientists and conservationists failed to spot any of the unique creatures. This means, they say, that the "goddess of the Yangtze" ...

The reported sighting of a Yangtze River dolphin, or Baiji, means there is still a chance for people to take further action and protect the cetaceans in the Yangtze from extinction, according to World ...

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, ...

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 ...