Syria's new flag. After Assad fled to Moscow on Dec. 8, rebel leaders hastily organized a caretaker government in Damascus. Within hours, a flag often used by opposition fighters replaced Assad's ...

The new national emblem is another step in the removal of symbols from the Assad dynasty, which ruled the country for more ...

People step on the Syria government's flag during a protest celebrating the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s administration outside the Syrian embassy in Madrid, Spain, December 8, 2024.

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. "This ...

Syrian opposition fighters burn government Syrian flags for the cameras next to Aleppo's old city, Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. Ghaith Alsayed / AP ...

A youth displays a Syrian opposition flag as he drives along the Umayyad Square in Damascus. Credit: AP It later became the national flag when Syria became independent in 1946.

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack raises the American flag at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in ...

BEIRUT — Syrian government forces hoisted their red, black and white flag as they took control of the southern city of Daraa on Thursday, quashing a rebellion that began there in 2011 and ...

Syrian opposition fighters removing a government flag from an official building Saturday in Salamiyah, east of Hama. (Ghaith Alsayed/Associated Press) The main rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ...