Within hours, a flag often used by opposition fighters replaced Assad's flag at Syrian government buildings across the world.

Assad's departure signals a new dawn for Syria, marked by a new national flag - which has been raised over embassies, painted ...

The design revives the so-called “independence” flag flown during Syria’s struggle for independence from France. The red fess is replaced with green and three red stars represent the three ...

Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has been ... but are not so different from the original one. The rebel flag has green at the top, white in the middle and black at the bottom of the flag ...

Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with ...

In 1980, then-president Hafez al-Assad adopted the United Arab Republic’s red-white-black tricolour with two green five-pointed stars for the Syrian national flag. Each colour of the Assad flag ...

The current Syrian flag, featuring red, white, and black stripes with two green stars in the centre, has been in use since 1980. A flag flies above the Syrian embassy in Moscow, Russia, December 8, ...

Supporters of the rebels who ousted president Bashar al-Assad have entered Syrian embassies around the world to tear down the old order’s two-starred Syrian flags, which had been the country’s ...

Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has been toppled by rebels and has fled to Russia. Syrians awoke on Monday to a more hopeful, but very uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital ...