Former Syrian president Bashar ... founding states of the United Arab Republic – and the black is to symbolise the alleged oppression suffered by Arabs. This flag was adopted in 1958, when ...

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 ...

After the surprise ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following a sweeping campaign by opposition militia, Syrians have raised a new flag to represent the overthrow of nearly six decades ...

Current Syrian Flag The current Syrian flag has been in ... Syria and Egypt - the two founding states of the United Arab Republic The Black is for the alleged oppression suffered by Arabs This ...

“On the behalf of the Syrian Arab Republic, I stand today at a historic moment overflowing with dignity, to raise our new Syrian flag in this international edifice for the first time, after we ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani raises the new Syrian flag during a ceremony at United Nations headquarters in New York — ANGELA WEISS Syria's foreign minister on Friday raised his country's ...

Dubai, UAE – Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, Founding Chairman of Al Habtoor Group, is set to make an official visit to the Syrian ...

The U.S. flag has been hoisted outside of the long-shuttered ambassador’s residence in Damascus. It's a sign of growing ties ...

where he urged a lifting of international sanctions and for Israel to be pressured to leave Syrian territory. "This flag is not a mere symbol, but rather a proclamation of a new existence," he ...