THE REBEL FLAG The green-white-black-red opposition flag, once a symbol of resistance and widely recognised during the Syrian civil war, has now been adopted as Syria's official national emblem ...

MORONI, Comoros (AP) — The islands of Comoros, Madagascar and Mayotte in the Indian Ocean were bracing for Cyclone Chido on Friday as the intense tropical storm whirred its way toward Africa's ...

Comoros, a small archipelago, ordered schools to close as authorities expected Chido to hit the islands early Saturday. Before then, the cyclone was due to pass the northern tip of Madagascar.

After the surprise ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following a sweeping campaign by opposition militia, Syrians have raised a new flag to represent the overthrow of nearly six decades o ...

Each colour of the Assad flag had a meaning: red stood for the blood shed in the fight for freedom, white meant a peaceful future, black symbolised oppression faced by Arabs and the green stars ...

Cheerful crowds gathered in central Damascus, waving the Syrian revolutionary flag in scenes similar to that of the early days of the Arab Spring uprising before a violent crackdown and the rise of ...

Syria's embassy in Moscow has raised the three-starred flag of the Syrian opposition, signalling the transition of power in the capital of Bashar al-Assad's ally. Pictures of the flag being ...

The green-white-black-red opposition flags were seen across Syria. Syrian rebels declared the fall of President Bashar al-Assad today, less than two weeks after a lightning offensive that ended ...

The American flag functions like a sacred symbol in American public life. The NFL anthem protest of 2016 demonstrates the various ways that Americans impute sacred significance to the American ...