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 ...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers approved a new flag Tuesday, defusing a long-simmering ... Socialism” motto of Saddam’s Baath party. The former leader’s handwritten “Allahu akbar” (God ...

The new design removes the old flag’s three green stars (first meant to symbolize Iraq’s failed pan-Arab union with Syria and Egypt, later changed to represent the Baath Party’s credo ...

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 ...

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 ...

That campaign killed tens of thousands of people. The old Iraqi flag featured three green stars representing the motto of Saddam's Baath party: unity, freedom and socialism. The new banner does ...

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 ...

"This flag represents the democracy and freedom of the new Iraq, where the old one represented ... petitions from former members of Hussein's Baath Party who had been fired from government jobs ...

but later said to symbolize the Baath party goals of unity, freedom and socialism. Iraq's first flag was adopted under the monarchy in 1925. According to parliament's website, the new Iraqi flag ...

Some detractors criticized how the Iraqi flag seeks to represent Arab nationalism ... featured belligerent stanzas in support of the Baath party, angering those who were marginalized by the ...

Iraqi lawmakers approved a new flag Tuesday, diffusing a long-simmering ... Socialism" motto of Hussein's Baath Party. The former leader's handwritten "Allahu akbar" (God is great) will be ...