The blaze broke out at an upgrading unit inside the refinery in Salahaddin province. Iraq’s Security Media Cell said in a ...

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.

One worker died and eight others were injured after a fire broke out on Monday in the gasoline-producing unit at the Baiji ...

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 ...

A fire triggered by the explosion of an air compressor at Iraq’s Baiji oil refinery in northern Salahaddin province killed one person and injured 13 others on Monday, local officials said.

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 ...

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 ...