Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, ...

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, U.N. report says.

The public are encouraged to use mobile phone apps to report issues the police, and drones are also used for surveillance.

In a rare escalation, a group of armed men with nationalistic aspirations clashed with regime security forces in the ...