A red star with a yellow center was added to the flag after a 1958 military coup that overthrew the monarchy and ended direct British influence over Iraq. The flag then went through a series of ...

Iraq's parliament has voted to change the country's flag. The three stars that represented Saddam Hussein's Baath Party will be removed, to address the concerns of Iraqi Kurds. They have refused to ...

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the autonomous Kurdish minority rarely allows the Iraqi flag to fly over official buildings, preferring its own national banner with its golden sunburst motif. But for many Arabs in the rest of Iraq, ...

It is still red, white and black, but three green stars in the centre representing ... "I told them we will use the old Iraqi flag because it represents the unity of Iraq. We do not believe ...

"A flag that flew in Iraq is not something you get every day ... words and an American flag with their handprints for the stars," Alvarado said. "All of us (soldiers) were moved." ...