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# Syria

## Sūriya, Syrian Arab Republic, Al-Jumhūriyyah al-Arabiyyah as-Sūriyyah

Last modified: 2026-07-18 by ian macdonald
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 24 March 2025

- Current flag
- Coat of arms
- National emblem
- Government flag
  - Green field variation
- Presidential Flag
- Military Flags
- Minister of Defence
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
- Syria Civil Defense (White Helmets)
- Aircraft Markings
- Syrian Air
- Syrian Interim Government
- Subnational Flags:
  - Damascus Governorate (Muhafazah Dimashq)
  - Al Hasakah Governorate (Muhafazah Al Hasakah)
  - Rif Dimashq Governorate
  - Jarabulus
  - Raqqa Civil Council
- Historical Flags:
  - Historical Flags – Overview
  - Historical Flags until 1932
  - Historical Flags since 1932
- Political Parties/Militias:
  - Al-Quds Brigade
  - Ansar al-Islam
  - Ba'ath Party
  - Bethnahrin National Council / Mesopotamia National Council
  - Democratic Autonomous Administration of the Region of North and East Syria (DAARNES)
  - Democratic Union Party (Kurdish)
  - European Solidarity Front for Syria
  - Fawj al-Imam al-Hujja
  - Freedom movement
  - Free Syrian Army (Syrian National Army)
  - Golan Liberation Brigade
  - Hezbollah Islamic Resistance in Syria
  - Imam Zain al-Abidain Brigade
  - Islamic Resistance Front in Syria
  - Jabhat al Nusra / Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
    - Khorasan group
  - Junud al-Sham
  - Levant Front
  - National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces
  - National Salvation Council
  - Quwat al-Jalil (Galilee Forces)
  - Syrian Communist Party
  - Syrian Democratic Forces
  - Syrian Democratic Turkmen Movement
  - Syrian Interim Government
  - Syrian Islamic Front
  - Syrian Revolutionaries Front
  - Syrian Salvation Government
  - Syrian Turkmen Assembly
  - Syrian Turkmen National Bloc
  - Syrian Social Nationalist Party (Lebanon)
  - The Syrian Resistance
- Syrian Civil War (2011- onwards)
- Syrian support and protest flags and banners
- Ethnic and Cultural Groups:
  - Druze
  - Syriac-Aramaic People
  - Syrian Turks and Azeris
- Educational Institutions:
  - Al Jazeera Private University (Jazeera University Deir Ezzor)
  - Damascus University
  - International University for Science & Technology (Oum El Qusur)
  - Syrian International Academy
- Corporate flags:
  - Central Bank of Syria
  - Miamed
  - Syrian Environmental Association
  - Syrian Arab Red Crescent
- Houseflags of Shipping Companies:
  - Samin Line
  - Al Fadel Shipping
- Syrian Football Association
- Syrian Olympic Committee
- Teshreen Sport Club (Latakia)
- Syrian Federation of International Freight Forwarding
- Unidentified flags seen in Syria

See also:

- United Arab Republic (Egypt & Syria, 1958 – 1961)
- Federation of Arab Republics (Egypt, Libya & Syria, 1972 – 1977)
- Municipalities in the Golan Heights Occupied Territories (Israel)
- Syriac Orthodox Church
- Syrian Social Nationalist Party (Lebanon)
- League of Arab States (Arab League)
- Pan-Arab Colours
- Kurdistan
- Flags of Neighboring Countries:
  - Iraq
  - Israel
  - Jordan
  - Lebanon
  - Türkiye

Other sites:

- Subnational flags: Syria at Dirk Schönberger's Administrative Divisions of the World website
- Universities of Syria/Lebanon

## Current Flag

A new interim constitution of Syria was adopted on 13 March 2025: https://www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/the-constitutional-declaration-of
https://constitutionnet.org/sites
Its Article 6 defines the new national flag of Syria:
"Article 6:
The Syrian flag is as follows:
The flag takes the form of a rectangle whose length is two thirds of its width.
It includes three rectangles, the top being green, the middle white, and the bottom black.
In the middle of the flag- the white part- are three red stars.”
[Its translation is probably wrong, it must be read as width is two thirds of its length.]
Based on images of the new national flag, the stars on the white stripe are smaller than they were previously used, their height is approximately half the height of the white stripe.
Images of flag:
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20241222
https://www.middleeasteye.net
https://menafn.com/1109055034/Syrian-Leader
Zoltan Horvath, 24 March 2025

Looking at the new Syrian flag that was raised at the UN by Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani during a flag raising ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 25, 2025, the stars appear to be much larger than what Zoltan noted. Flag article source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-foreign-minister-raises-new-flag-at-un-calls-for-israeli-withdrawal
William Garrison, 26 April 2025

## Coat of arms

image by Zoltan Horvath, 24 March 2025

A new version of coat of arms also has been used, its image is seen on the cover page of the new Constitution: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia
Zoltan Horvath, 24 March 2025

## National emblem

image by Esteban Rivera, 19 July 2025

Syria adopted a new national emblem, marking a historic shift from Baath Party rule, and serving as a visual identity for the post-Assad era.
The new national emblem of Syria features a gold-coloured eagle, facing to its right (dexter), with three five-pointed stars arranged in an arc above its head. The eagle's wings contain 14 feathers, symbolizing the country's 14 governorates. The emblem was officially adopted on 3 July 2025.
Sources:
https://www.facebook.com/share
https://www.facebook.com/photo
The emblem has a simplified version, which is plain golden without details of eagle.
https://x.com/syr_republic
Zoltan Horvath, 5 July 2025

The symbolism for the new Syrian national emblem is explained at:
https://levant24.com/infographics/2025/07/syria-unveils-new-national-identity
Nozomi Kariyasu, 5 July 2025

## Government flag

image by Zoltan Horvath, 26 August 2025
based on photo located by Jason Saber, 19 July 2025

A new Syrian government flag has appeared with the apparent new emblem on what is described as a basalt background. I suspect that this may actually be a presidential standard.
Image source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php, dated 10 July 2025
Jason Saber, 19 July 2025

According to the Arabic Wikipedia entry on the Syrian Salvation Government's Ministry of Interior, the reported flag is the new government's visual identity, officially launched on July 3 (source: https://sana.sy/en/?p=362614).
This change was carried out mainly by Wassim Kadoura, Head of the Visual Identity Team, in conjunction with the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Syrian Ministry of Information (source: https://x.com/syr_republic/status/1940861247911874945).
The following social media accounts and/or homepages have been displaying in recent publications the new emblem which replaces the former logo:
- Official X account of the Syrian Arab Republic, https://x.com/syr_republic
- Official X account of the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, https://x.com/syrianmofaex
- Official X account of the Syrian Embassy in Qatar, https://x.com/syrembassy
- Official website of SANA (Syrian Arab News Agency), https://sana.sy/en/?p=362614
The recent Constitutional Declaration of the Syrian Arab Republic is a provisional, yet de jure, Constitution, which stipulates this new emblem and perhaps will be used together with the arms but may replace it in the near future, as some official social media accounts, specifically the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, which used the former arms (December 22, 2024) and is currently using the new visual identity, dated July 3, 2025 and https://www.facebook.com, dated July 8, 2025, the latter which includes an Arabic inscription below as well, and has now replaced it with the one reported here.

For additional information go to Ministry of Interior (Syria) (official website): https://pministry.gov.sy/, http://www.syriamoi.gov.sy, (former official website under Ba'ath political party government).
Esteban Rivera, 19 July 2025

The Reddit source calls the color "basalt black" and along with two photos of the flag in use, it also presents a collage which consists of three photos, all with gray, black and white as the dominant colors, and of three color swatches in white, gray and off-black colors, respectively. Gray has the hex code #3d3a3b (RGB 61-58-59) and off-black has #161616 (RGB 22-22-22) - this last color might well be the correct one, because the flag field might be a bit lighter than the black of the national flag, but not very much. If the FOTW standard colors were used, G++ might be the right choice until a precise definition is revealed.
Tomislav Todorovic, 27 August 2025

### Green field variation

image located by William Garrison, 10 December 2025

Source: https://www.thenationalnews.com/video

Mimics the mid-2025 basalt-background/field "Government flag". Here, a green-field flag with 2 slogans - the bottom in English and above it in Arabic reading: "Syrian Arab Republic", with Syria's new "national emblem" (c. mid-2025) depicted in the middle. I do not know whether or not this is a new version of the official "Government flag" or if it is just some flag possibly commemorating the first anniversary (Dec. 2025) of the ousting of ex-Pres. Bashar al-Assad in Dec. 2024. There is a hidden flagpole sleeve along the right hoist side.
William Garrison, 10 December 2025