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The Ottoman flag had been used in Syria until the Ottomans left the country on 18 September 1918. In 1918, the official flag of Syria was the Faysal flag, or Flag of the Arab Revolt, the flag of the 1916–1918 Arab Revolt against the Ottomans.
Flag of Syria in the Federation of Arab Republics: Tricolor consisting of red, white and black stripes with a golden Hawk of Quraish in the centre white stripe. 2:3 ratio. Flag shared with Egypt and Libya. 1980–2024: Flag of the Syrian Arab Republic: Reversion to 1958 design. 2024–present: Flag of the Syrian Arab Republic
In July 1922, France established a loose federation between three of the states: Damascus, Aleppo, and the Alawite state under the name of the Syrian Federation (Fédération syrienne). Jabal Druze, Sanjak of Alexandretta, and Greater Lebanon were not parts of this federation, which adopted a new federal flag (green-white-green with French canton).
Supporters of rebels who ousted President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday have entered some Syrian embassies abroad to hoist their flag, while insurgents also entered the Italian envoy's residence in ...
Name of Symbol Picture National flag: Flag of Syria (1958–1961; 1980–2024) Coat of arms ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...
A man waves a Syrian flag standing atop a monument at Umayyad Square in central Damascus on Wednesday. For 11 days, the rebels had made a rapid advance from their stronghold in Idlib toward the ...
Syria's brutal civil war rekindled suddenly after 13 years, with rebels staging a shock offensive that forced long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad to flee to Russia.
In 1970, Hafez al-Assad seized power, beginning the rule of the Assad family. Syria was under emergency law from the time of the 1963 Syrian coup d'état until 21 April 2011, when it was rescinded by Bashar al-Assad, Hafez's eldest surviving son and his successor as president of Syria. [4]