ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Three people were injured when an explosion hit the Baiji oil refinery in Iraq’s northern Salahaddin province on Sunday, a provincial council member said, assuring that it ...

BAIJI, Iraq (AFP) — One man lost his uncle. Another is mourning for two sons. Farmers and herders in Iraq’s Baiji say mines left by the Islamic State group turned their beloved orchards into ...

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 ...

ISIS claimed it controlled part of Iraq’s largest oil refinery Sunday ... The group said it launched an assault on the Baiji oil refinery late Saturday. By Sunday, ISIS said its fighters ...

Loss of Baiji refinery would be a serious blow to the Iraqi government. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Hundreds of Iraqi troops battling for control of the vital Baiji oil refinery are outnumbered, surrounded ...

BAIJI, Iraq -- Pfc. Robyn Houston fires bursts of bullets into the air as his Humvee swerves around a pothole and lurches over a highway median. His convoy bears down on oncoming traffic ...

TEHRAN, May 18 (MNA) – An explosion occurred in the Baiji oil refinery in Iraq on Sunday. A security source announced that a massive explosion occurred in one of the internal sections of the Baiji ...

“It’s too early to declare Baiji liberated,” the official told CNN. Baiji is in northern Iraq, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Tikrit. The United States has concerns as well about ...

BAGHDAD, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Iraq on Friday reopened its North Refinery in Baiji that was shut for a decade during the violence and chaos that followed the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 which made it ...

He said: “If God is willing, Baiji will be the main key to liberating each span of Iraq.” This is probably over-optimistic but, if the Iraqi army captures Baiji, this will cut off the city of ...

BAIJI, IRAQ (AFP) - One man lost his uncle. Another is mourning for two sons. Farmers and herders in Iraq's Baiji say mines left by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group have turned ...