What’s the flag Syrian rebels are utilizing?

Syrians awoke on Monday to a extra hopeful, however very unsure future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus of their makes an attempt to take again their nation.

However what can we learn about them and what’s the flag they’ve been flying since their victory?

The insurgent flags are at the moment flying excessive throughout the nation, and have changed the posters of Mr Assad, which loomed all through the streets of Damascus.

And it’s not solely in Syria that the change has occurred.

Supporters of the Syrian rebels went into the Syrian embassy in Athens, Greece, and hoisted the insurgent flag from the rooftop, it was reported.

4 folks have been arrested for the intrusion, however the flag was left flying.

The present flag has been in use since 1980 and contains 4 primary colors – crimson, white, inexperienced and black, which all have completely different meanings.

Pink represents the blood shed within the revolution for the liberty of Syrians whereas the white denotes a peaceable future.

The inexperienced stars within the center symbolize Syria and Egypt – the 2 founding states of the United Arab Republic – and the black is to symbolise the alleged oppression suffered by Arabs.

This flag was adopted in 1958, when the nation turned impartial of European affect and determined to kind the United Arab Republic with Egypt.

Rebels proudly introduced throughout Syria’s state tv that they’d toppled Mr Assad, ending his household’s regime, and holding aloft the brand new flag, which they are saying symbolises independence.

The green-white-black-red opposition flags have been seen throughout the nation, however should not so completely different from the unique one.

The insurgent flag has inexperienced on the prime, white within the center and black on the backside of the flag with three crimson stars within the center, and is a modified model of the independence flag first utilized in 1932 when Syria gained independence from France. The Syrian opposition favoured the flag to symbolize independence from the Assad authorities and it may imply that that is the flag that may, for now, be used to point out the nation has modified.

And it doesn’t look like there might be a lot opposition to this transformation.