Dozens of cities and states have adopted – or are considering – new flag designs featuring the unfamiliar eight-point star, a symbol critics claim is more common in Islam than in US history.

The United States men’s soccer team took a stand for Iranian women by removing the Islamic Republic symbol from the country’s flag in multiple online images ahead of the U.S.-Iran World Cup ...

Some days later, on February 28, the main state TV channel, Tojikiston, ran an item on the evening news citing the State Committee for National Security as saying that it had caught the culprit.

Flags and emblems of Islamic State, pictured on Wednesday on houses in a Bosnian village, disappeared on Thursday under threat of action by police wary of the dangers posed by radical Islamists ...