But in at least five other Southern states, symbols of the old Confederacy form part of the state flags themselves. Alabama state flag Encyclopaedia Britannica / UIG via Getty Images Alabama ...

That is the question that swirled throughout Moscow when a top imam called for the addition of the Islamic crescent moon symbol to the Russian emblem.

The Palestinian Red Crescent accused Israel of firing on Friday at a hospital in Khan Younis, as a major advance in the main city in the southern Gaza Strip threatened the few healthcare ...

Public opinion of the Confederate flag hasn't changed much in the past 15 years, with most people describing the banner as a symbol of Southern pride more than one of ...

The crescent moon has a famously lofty place in Arab and Islamic culture. A symbol of transformation, it signals the beginning and end of every month of the Hijri calendar. Even now, astronomers ...

Abed described seeing Israeli soldiers open fire on the emergency vehicles, which were marked with Red Crescent symbols. He recalled how the soldiers fired heavily at the approaching vehicles ...

Norfolk Southern broke ground on a $95 million rail facility in Alabama, marking a milestone in the railroad’s Crescent Corridor project. The 316-acre Birmingham Regional Intermodal facility ...

The board approved the star and crescent and came up with guidelines for future requests: There has to be a formal application, the symbol will be displayed only during the Christmas season, it ...

In the Muslim world, the crescent moon and star is a symbol which is arguably as iconic to Islam as the cross is to Christianity. But do the crescent and star - which appears on the flags of some ...