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Iraq's flag has been changed a number of times over the years - the 2008 design dropped three stars in the middle bar, while in 2004, the script used for the text was changed to Kufic style from ...
The flag was particularly special to Gomez, who told news stations that it was given to him by a boy in Iraq in 2007. Later, after a roadside bomb injured his team, he said he used the flag as a ...
Now it’s in a basement. Tim McLaughlin’s flag once stood for victory in Iraq. Today, the Marine vet is unsure what to do with it or the painful memories it evokes.
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.
From a peak of about 200,000, there are now about 4,000 U.S. military personnel left in Iraq, Kelly says. All American combat forces are due to be out of the country by Dec. 31.
And Iraq's Arab-dominated Parliament condemned the flag move, but Arabs are weaker in northern Iraq since the rise of ISIS. Ramla Abdul Hamid Ahmad is an Arab member of the local council.
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament voted unanimously to activate a lapsed law that criminalizes displaying the Israeli flag in public, an unexpected step that comes in response to a Kurdish bid to ...
Iraq claims that it has used attack helicopters to defeat attack. June 19, 2014— -- The flag of ISIS was pictured flying above Iraq's biggest oil refinery today, an image that suggested the ...
Iraq has had numerous flags since the country's 1921 inception by British mandate. White, black, green, and red appeared on most of the flags, representing Arab-Islamic powers.
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers approved a new flag Tuesday, defusing a long-simmering dispute with the country’s northern Kurds, who had refused to fly the national banner because of its connection ...