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MOHAMMAD AYATOLLAHI TABAAR is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A ...

The optimism about changes in Syria should be tempered by a look at what is in, and what's out, in the new regime's schoolbooks.

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

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the length of the country to explore its hopes and its challenges.

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a ...

DAMASCUS -The U.S. envoy for Syria, Thomas Barrack, raised the American flag over the ambassador's residence in Damascus on Thursday for the first time since the embassy closed in 2012, a year ...

The symbolic raising marks the first time the U.S. flag has flown above Damascus since Washington shut down its embassy in response to deadly violence.

DAMASCUS-Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani raised his country’s new flag at the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 26, in what he called a “historic” moment. Mr ...

Syria’s newly adopted flag was elevated alongside those of other member nations during a ceremonial event at the United Nations headquarters in New Y ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani attends the ceremony of the new Syrian government flag being raised for the first time, outside United Nations Headquarters in New York, US, April ...

New: Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad Al Shaibani participated today, April 25, in the ceremony to raise the new Syrian flag at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The event ...