IOC lifts ban, says "we look forward to seeing the Iraqi flag in Beijing." July 28, 2008 -- LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The International Olympic Committee ruled Tuesday that Iraq could participate in ...

BAGHDAD — Tensions flared again in Iraq Saturday over a series of recent protests in Europe involving desecration of the Quran, Islam's holy book, which have sparked a debate over the balance between ...

Iraq has severed diplomatic ties with Sweden Thursday after a planned anti-Quran demonstration unfolded in Stockholm, during which an individual stepped on and kicked the Islamic holy book and Iraqi ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - On Kurdistan Flag Day, security forces in Kirkuk prevented a group of Kurdish youths from raising ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi parliament's move to adopt a new, temporary national flag has provoked an outcry, with one city refusing to fly it and ordinary Iraqis attaching the old flag to their ...

(Adds quotes) By Waleed Ibrahim BAGHDAD, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament adopted a new, temporary national flag on Tuesday in a move long demanded by the country's Kurdish minority who say the ...

BAGHDAD — American flags were set on fire Friday to chants of “no, no for occupation” as followers of an anti-U.S. Shiite cleric marked the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war. In five other Iraqi ...

BAGHDAD - Nearly nine years after American troops stormed across the Iraq border in a blaze of shock and awe, U.S. officials quietly ended the bloody and bitterly divisive conflict here Thursday, but ...

BAGHDADBAGHDAD — Tensions flared again in Iraq on Saturday over a series of recent protests in Europe involving the desecration of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, which sparked a debate over the balance ...