The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria.

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.

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.