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.

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.

For the first time since 2012, the flag was raised as the new US Envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, arrived in Damascus. The new US envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, attended a flag-raising ceremony to ...

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.

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.

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.

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.