On the first visit of its kind since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al -Assad, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al -Shaibani raised the new flag of his country in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York, before his participation in a briefing session at the UN Security Council.

The flag that Al -Shaibani raised is the same as the opposition groups during the years of the civil war, and it was officially adopted as a new slogan for the Syrian Arab Republic, succeeding the previous flag that was associated with the Assad era.

The new Syrian government, headed by Ahmed Al -Shara, is seeking to open channels of communication with the United States, in the hope that this will reduce the severe US sanctions imposed on the country since 2011, the date of the outbreak of protests against Assad and the war that followed.

The Syrian delegation, who visited the United States this week, included officials who participated in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund meetings in Washington, as well as sessions at the United Nations in New York. However, the ambiguity still surrounds the possibility of Al -Shaibani with officials in the administration of US President Donald Trump, who has not yet officially recognized the new government in Damascus.

The new Syrian flag: from "the revolution" to the international platforms

The raising of the new Syrian flag at the United Nations headquarters was widely welcomed on social media, where many considered it a "long -awaited moment", and a symbol of a symbolic victory as long as the opponents dreamed of, after more than a decade of war and division, the flag of the "Syrian revolution" returned to rise in international forums, this time as an official flag of Syria.

This flag symbolizes a articulated stage in the history of the country, and its roots go back to the first science that Syria adopted after its independence from France in 1932, and was raised for the first time in the city of Aleppo. It consists of three horizontal tapes in color: green at the top, followed by white, then black, and is surrounded by three five -star red stars.

In 2011, the opposition forces adopted this flag again, to replace the official flag that the Assad regime has used since 1980. The colors of the green flag symbolized the estrangement with the legacy of the regime, and the three red stars have become the pivotal cities in the path