“Is this Iraq’s flag? What was wrong with it ... were killed and whole villages were annihilated by the fascist Baath regime and under the old flag,” said Rizgar Khorsheed, a 55-year ...

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BAGHDAD -- A new Iraqi flag -- stripped of the three green stars of Saddam Hussein's toppled Baath party -- was hoisted over the Iraqi Cabinet building Tuesday in a symbolic break with the past ...

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 ...

Last week, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his two vice presidents agreed on its design. The old flag was designed after a 1963 coup ushered the Baath Party to power. It was seen as being ...

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised Iraq's new national flag over his office for the first time on Tuesday, at a ceremony he hoped would encourage others to accept its use. February 5, 2008 ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament passed a law to change the Saddam Hussein- era flag, above ... stars are thought to symbolize Hussein’s Baath Party. The words “Allahu Akbar,” or “God ...

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 ...

Iraqi lawmakers approved a new flag Tuesday, diffusing a long-simmering dispute with the country's northern Kurds who had refused to fly the national banner because of its connection to Saddam ...

But the new national flag, presented Monday after an artistic competition sponsored by the Iraqi Governing Council, appears to have met with widespread public disapproval here — in part because ...

The Iraqi Baath party was one of the tools by which Saddam Hussein maintained a tight grip on his country. The Arab Socialist Baath Party, to give it its full name, was founded in Syria in the 1940s ...