When Syria gained its independence from France in 1946, the three-starred flag was formally incorporated and later enshrined in Syria’s constitution. The flag was dropped when Syria joined Egypt ...

Following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's government, Israeli troops moved into the demilitarised zone inside Syria created after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war ... raised a new flag to represent ...

Paterson, a longtime home for Syrian Americans ... first time that the city raised the opposition flag. In the throes of an uprising and war, the city raised it in April 2017.

But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria. Scores of people posting about the fall of Syria's oppressive government to rebels this month can only use the ousted regime's ...

Coordinated with Iran, the deployment expanded a Russian military presence dating to the Cold War, when the Soviet Union established a naval base at the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus.