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 ...

The two men travelled on a Saudi jet, with a Saudi flag visible on the table behind them. Syria’s new three-star, tricolour flag ... with al-Qaeda but has since denounced its former ties.