The soon-to-be-released emoji features Syria’s tricolour design, with green on top, black on the bottom, and three red stars filling the white stripe in the middle. This contrasts with the country’s ...

That and HTS’s past affiliation with Sunni Muslim extremist al-Qaida, has minorities suspicious. An elderly Druze man stands near Syria’s new flag and the multi-colored flag of the Islamic offshoot in ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has announced the results of the state flag redesign contest following a five-week voting period. Voters had the option to choose their favorite from ...

An overwhelming majority of voters of an online poll chose maintaining the current flag of Illinois rather ... The commission whittled down thousands of redesign submissions to 10 options for ...

Syria's transitional leader is a former jihadist. Can he help stabilize the region? Ahmed al-Sharaa founded the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, but is now advocating unity.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Residents walk in the market on the first day of Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims, in the old city of ...

On December 8, Syria appeared to turn a page on dictatorship. After 14 years of brutality under former president Bashar al-Assad, the country ostensibly stood at the threshold of liberty.

Italy has earmarked some 68 million euros ($73.20 million) to finance humanitarian projects and rebuild infrastructure in Syria, Rome's foreign minister told lawmakers on Thursday, saying it was ...