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.

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.

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 ...

The United States men’s soccer team took a stand for Iranian women “fighting for basic human rights” by removing the Islamic Republic symbol from the country’s flag in multiple online ...

The U.S. soccer federation is displaying Iran's national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic, saying it supports protesters in Iran ahead of the two nations' World Cup ...

The Islamic Republic emblem, designed in 1980, is four curves with a sword between them. It represents the Islamic saying: “There is no god but God.” It also resembles a tulip or lotus.

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 ...