The three red stars across the middle represent ... Other flags - As the 13-year civil war has dragged on, other flags have cast shadows over Syria. One was the Islamic State group's, which ...

it has a tricolour of horizontal stripes of green, white and black with three red stars in the middle and its origins are even older than that of two-star version. It was Syria's official flag in ...

Three horizontal stripes: green, white, and black. Three red stars ... this old flag has been revived by Sunni Islamists who have seized control in Damascus. Coffin draped by Syrian national ...