A long-running debate over whether to change the flag had been given urgency by a planned pan-Arab meeting of politicians in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan on March 10.

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 ...

Iraq’s U.S.-picked leaders have approved a new flag for the country, dumping the Saddam Hussein-era colors and slogan “God is great” and using symbols of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Nearly seven years after losing her son in Iraq, Gloria Caldas has a special flag to fly in his memory at her new home. "Ernie would be so happy that this happened here at the Alamo," his mother ...

IN e-mails sent during the last week in November between Iraqi power outages, 1987 Elsik High School graduate Karl M. Campbell — now an Air Force master sergeant — explained why he had asked ...

A group led by al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi showed the beheading of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda in Iraq while he was lying on top of a U.S. flag in an Internet video posted on Tuesday.

Three Sunni Islamist insurgent groups said on Thursday they had formed a coalition that aimed to expel U.S.-led forces from Iraq and appeared to distance itself from al Qaeda-linked organizations ...

Roundtable: Phone Records, Iraq, NCAA Flag Ban Thursday's topics: Government interest in New York Times phone records; killing in Iraq; the NCAA and the Confederate flag. Analysis ...

An American flag that flew over Camp Striker, Iraq, was given to Fairhope dentist Kaye Shaw in appreciation for her effort to send the troops 14,000 holiday cards last year. Baldwin County schools ...

In e-mails sent this week between Iraqi power outages, 1987 Elsik High School graduate Karl M. Campbell — now an Air Force master sergeant — explained why he'd asked his parents to present a U ...

HOBART | While Capt. Michael Daake and fellow 113th Engineer Battalion soldiers risked their lives in Iraq, the American flag took on new meaning.

In a surprise move, the most powerful Iran-backed militia in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, announced on Tuesday the suspension of its military operations against US forces in the region two days after a ...