Tension over Iraqi flag hits N Iraq

Nabeel Zirqi, Aljazeera.net

Hundreds of Iraqi flags bearing the phrase 'Allah Akbar' have appeared throughout the streets of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in what analysts are calling an act of Arab defiance. Kurdish leader Massoud al-Barzani's decision to take down the red-white-and-black flag, which stood alongside the Kurdish flag atop official government buildings in the Kurdish areas of the country, has created further tension between various communities in Iraq...

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