He’s heard critics who say foreign flags should not be carried in protests, but he shrugs it off. “That’s like saying, ‘Don’t wave your heritage, your history,’” he said.

But the images of Mexican flags, flags from other Latin American countries and modified Mexican flags that also feature the American flag have taken center stage in the L.A. protests and have ...

Syria's foreign minister on Friday raised his country's new flag at UN headquarters in New York, hailing the move as a "proclamation of a new existence" after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.