Iraq's US-appointed Governing Council has approved a new national flag for the embattled country, officials said. The design consists of a pale blue crescent on a white background, with a yellow strip ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Twenty years ago, Tim McLaughlin’s flag briefly came to symbolize victory in Iraq and the hope that U.S. military power might democratize the Middle East. McLaughlin was a ...

After years of sectarian strife in the oil-rich nation, Iraq is to get a new flag and national anthem, with the aim to put decades of conflict behind them. But there's still some work ahead 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 ...

and did the same with an Iraqi flag and a photo of influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr and of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The right to hold ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s foreign ministry on Saturday said it strongly condemns the desecration of its flag and the burning of the Quran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen the ...