The German flag's distinctive black, red and gold stripes date back to the 19th century. We look at the history around the colours, what they represent and how Germans feel about their flag.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Several Syrian embassies abroad hoist flags with the three-star symbol of rebel forces. In Spain, around 150 people cheered and shouted "Freedom!" when a man at the Syrian embassy ...

The banner, with its horizontal red, black and green stripes, was adopted by the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) at a conference in New York City in 1920. For several years leading ...

The flag features 3 symbols — a five-point star, a bursting star, and an arc — which have specific meanings, according to Haith. Many Black Americans celebrate Juneteenth with the red, black ...

As a compromise, the Confederate flag-makers settled on an imitation design they called the Stars and Bars: three horizontal stripes, two red and one white, with a blue corner in the upper left ...

The Chinese republic first had a flag of 5 horizontal stripes, then in 1928 the ‘Blue Sky, White Sun, and the Vast Red Earth’. In 1949 came the 5-star Red Flag ...