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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 ...
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament passed a law to change the Saddam Hussein- era flag, above, meeting the demands of Iraq’s Kurdish minority, which threatened not to fly the banner during a pan ...
In March 2003, the United States launched a full-scale invasion of Iraq, with a goal of toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime, ...
As millions watched the statue fall in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, Tim McLaughlin’s American flag came to symbolize victory in Iraq. ... to tear down a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ‘of a fate similar to Saddam Hussein’. The Iraqi dictator ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly ...
Marine Sgt. Ed Chin draping the U.S. flag over Saddam Hussein's statue, Baghdad, April 9, 2003. ... He saw Chin with the stars and stripes at the top and grew enraged it wasn't an Iraqi flag.
When Saddam Hussein's statue toppled down in Firdos Square in downtown Baghdad in April 9, 2003, the image of an American flag covering the face of Hussein's IE 11 is not supported.
An Iraqi man who famously took a sledge hammer to a statue of Saddam Hussein during the U.S. invasion 15 years ago looks back at what has happened to his country since then.