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.

On social media platform X, Unicode's account has been flooded with calls to update the Syrian flag emoji. Many users have been replying even to non-Syria social media posts, asking the Consortium ...

coupled with mounting calls for technology companies to update the Syrian flag emoji. Manal al-Assad, wife of Maher, the younger brother of Bashar al-Assad, and Rami Kaazour, the singer of an ...