The red, white, green and black Free Syrian Army flag flew over Damascus on Sunday as thousands of residents lined the main square in bursts of defiant jubilation – after President Bashar al ...

when a coup by the army reinstated Syria as an independent nation. Ousted President Bashar al-Assad’s father and Ba'ath party officers established this basic design as Syria’s official flag ...

Credit: AP Why are the rebels using it? The three-star flag design was brought back into use by the Free Syrian Army, a rebel group which formed in 2011 to oppose Assad's regime. Given its ...

The flag and the anthem ... Quite the opposite, the battles of “Dawn of Freedom” and the Syrian National Army’s dependence on ...

de facto army of Rojava. The new Syrian flag has yet to be officially recognized as the country is going through a transitional period. The previous flag, featuring two green stars and the colors ...

spurring the Syrian Army to withdraw following the latest escalation in a 13-year civil war that left dozens of government soldiers dead. A Syrian opposition flag flys above a market square in ...

A Syrian army soldier places a Syrian national flag during a battle with rebel fighters at the Ramouseh front line, east of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File ...