Paterson had raised opposition flag before Assad’s toppling prompted celebrations across Syria and in diaspora communities around the world, including in New Jersey earlier this week.

The symbolic raising was the first time the U.S. flag had flown above Damascus since Washington shut down its embassy in 2012 in response to violence that eventually killed over 650,000 people.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -The United States' newly-appointed Syria envoy said he believed peace between Syria and Israel was achievable as he made his first trip to Damascus on Thursday, praising the ...

People step on the Syria government's flag during a protest celebrating the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s administration outside the Syrian embassy in Madrid, Spain, December 8, 2024.

When Syria’s new interim prime minister, Mohammad al-Bashir, chaired a Cabinet meeting in Damascus on Tuesday, hanging behind him was the flag of the country’s suddenly victorious opposition.

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.

Syria’s army entered rebel-held parts of Daraa city on Thursday, state media said, raising the national flag in the cradle of the uprising that sparked the country’s seven-year war.

See About archive blog posts. A small flag was raised and a golden plaque displayed outside an office building on a busy commercial street in Beirut, and a little piece of history was made this week.