Flag of Syria
Three horizontal stripes of green, white and black, with three red five-pointed stars in a row across the white stripe.
What the flag means
The 2025 constitutional declaration describes the flag but gives no meanings. When it was introduced in 1930, the three stars stood for the states of Aleppo, Damascus and Deir ez-Zor. The colours are commonly linked to the Rashidun (green), Umayyad (white) and Abbasid (black) caliphates.
History
A committee led by the nationalist Ibrahim Hananu drew up the design, and it became the flag of the Syrian Republic under the French Mandate on 14 May 1930. Syria kept it at independence in 1946, replaced it with the United Arab Republic flag in 1958 and used it again from 1961 to 1963. The opposition took it up in late 2011. After the fall of the Assad government, the caretaker government used it from 8 December 2024, and the constitutional declaration of 13 March 2025 made it the national flag.
Earlier flags of Syria
- 1958–1961United Arab Republic flag: red, white and black with two green stars
- 1963–1972Red, white and black with three green stars
- 1972–1980Federation of Arab Republics flag, with the Hawk of Quraish
- 1980–2024Red, white and black with two green stars, readopted under Hafez al-Assad
Flags of Syria's neighbours
Sources
- Wikipedia: Flag of Syria
- Flags of the World: Syria
Last reviewed 24 October 2026. Read how we research flags in our editorial policy, or report a mistake.
