Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A comparison of the flags of some of Iraq's neighbours, Iraq's older flags, and the proposed flag. Following the military invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003, the Iraqi government was overthrown, and the Ba'ath party was outlawed. Strong speculation followed that the U.S. government would press for a change in the Iraqi flag to remove ...
The Emblem of Iraq since the rule of Baathism features a golden black eagle looking towards the viewer's left dexter.The eagle is the Eagle of Saladin associated with 20th-century pan-Arabism, bearing a shield of the Iraqi flag, and holding a scroll below with the Arabic words جمهورية العراق (Jumhūriyyat al-ʿIrāq – "Republic of Iraq").
The national symbols of Iraq are official and unofficial flags, icons or cultural expressions that are emblematic, representative or otherwise characteristic of Iraq and of its culture. Symbol [ edit ]
Printable version; In other projects ... Flags of Iraq (1 P) O. Orders, decorations, and medals of Iraq (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "National symbols of Iraq"
English: Coat of arms of Iraq as adapted to new 2008 form of national flag -- standard pan-Arab "Eagle of Saladin" with shield of the tricolor of national flag (with the "Takbir" الله أكبر in Kufic text, as on the flag), holding a scroll with the words جمهورية العراق; (Jumhuriyat al-`Iraq "The Republic of Iraq").
The flag uses the four Pan-Arab colors (in addition to yellow), but was intended to move away from explicit Pan-Arab or Nasserite symbolism. The yellow sun represented the Kurdish minority and the red star of the "Star of Ishtar" symbol was used to represent Iraq's ancient heritage, as well as its minority Assyrian population.
Iraqi state emblem (or coat of arms) adopted under the Qassem (or Kassem, Qasim etc.) regime, official from 1959-1965. It is based on the star on the victory stele of Naram-Sin of Akkad (reign ca. 2190 - 2154 BCE), which is a combination of the star of Ishtar and Shamash's solar symbol.
English: Coat of Arms of Iraq from 1991 to 2004 -- standard pan-Arab "Eagle of Saladin" with shield of the tricolor of national flag (with the "Takbir" text الله أكبر widely rumored to be in Saddam Hussein's own handwriting), holding a scroll with the words الجمهورية العراقية (al-Jumhuriya al-`Iraqiya "The Iraqi Republic").