BAGHDAD – Legislators were outraged, insults were hurled. Opponents dragged out old ethnic divisions and warned of a dark collusion. "It was an organized conspiracy to change the flag," said ...

The former Iraqi flag was designed after the February 1963 coup that brought the now-outlawed Baath Party to power. Its three green stars represented then the would-be unity between Egypt, Iraq ...

Could it be the (long-delayed, thoroughly botched, and ethnically cleansed) birth of a nation? Hot off reforming the disastrous ...

Iraq is seeking to replace its national anthem and flag in a move aimed at providing unifying national symbols and putting decades of conflict and hardship in the country behind it. "We are ...

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 ...

IRAQ is seeking to replace its national anthem and flag in a move aimed at providing unifying symbols and putting decades of conflict and hardship in the country behind it.

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament passed a law to change the Saddam Hussein- era flag, above, meeting the demands of Iraq’s Kurdish minority, which threatened not to fly the banner during a pan ...

Iraq's new flag (AFP) It's being hailed as a key step toward Iraqi reconciliation. In a rare moment of unity, Iraq's parliament on January 22 voted to adopt a temporary national flag. The move ...

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 ...