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 ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish officials will not remove Kurdish flags from state buildings along the semi-autonomous border in a defiant move that will fuel tensions with the central ...

Iraqi military forces raised the nation's flag over government buildings in western Mosul on Tuesday before fending off a withering counterattack from Islamic State insurgents being driven from a ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — 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 ...