These aspects include the Syrian revolutionary flag (with three stars) becomes the new independence flag, the national anthem is from a poem by late Syrian diplomat and poet Omar Abu Risha.

The new Syrian flag, similar to the independence flag used from the 1930s to the 1960s — black, green and white with three red stars — hung everywhere. In Damascus, if young people in their ...

Paterson, a longtime home for Syrian Americans, raised the three-star flag of the Syrian revolution before cheering crowds Saturday, six days after the toppling of the Assad regime in Damascus.