KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 5 -- The band was straining and the color guard was out of step, but Afghanistan's new national flag rose today on hopes that this fractious country can unite under a ...

Vendors sell Taliban flags outside the Central Bank of Afghanistan. ... In an elaborate ceremony, a 130-foot-wide Taliban flag was raised where the old Afghan republic flag used to fly.

Around him outside the towers of an office complex, many carried the red, green and black flag of the old Afghanistan. Others kept a red, white and blue U.S. flag on a pole fluttering in the breeze.