And, Anne, what was it? ANNE GARRELS: Well, it was the sun-splashed red, white and green Kurdish flag, not the Iraqi flag. One of the witnesses wore it. And now this is a big issue, because the ...

The leader of the Kurdish region in northern Iraq threatened secession Sunday as a dispute over flying the Iraqi flag intensified. Massoud Barzani on Friday ordered the country’s national flag ...

The mountainous landscapes and serene waters connect the Kurdish nation, which is represented by the flag’s green band. Its 21-point golden-colored star bursts into all three bands, representing ...

According to Azad Jundiyani, a member of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Suleymaniyah, Barzani issued a formal message asking for the Iraqi flag to be lowered.

after which Iraqi lawmakers hope to choose a permanent replacement. The flag of northern Iraq's Kurdish region is red, white and green with a golden sun in the center.

held a ceremony on Thursday to celebrate Kurdistan Flag day. “This flag is a symbol for the sacrifice of our nation,” Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said in a speech at the Thursday ceremony ...

Some of that tension appeared to spill over into Friday’s announcement: President @masoud_barzani: Aside from the Kurdistan flag, no other flag will rise in Sinjar. This was a Peshmerga-led ...

Instead, young boys and girls were being kitted out in military uniforms, to be worn in school on Flag Day. The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) instituted Flag Day in 2009 to commemorate the ...

A year ago, the roads of Iraqi Kurdistan were decked out with green, red and white Kurdish flags as the region voted overwhelmingly for independence from Baghdad. Today, the election posters ...

Kurdistan in Iraq is on the threshold of fateful decisions. On September 25 it will carry out a referendum on Kurdistan independence, thus closing a circle ... the Kurdish flag in Kirkuk on ...