He’s heard critics who say foreign flags should not be carried in protests, but he shrugs it off. “That’s like saying, ‘Don’t wave your heritage, your history,’” he said.

Syria's foreign minister on Friday raised his country's new flag at UN headquarters in New York, hailing the move as a "proclamation of a new existence" after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

Syria's foreign minister on Friday raised his country's new flag at UN headquarters in New York, hailing the move as a "proclamation of a new existence" after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.Asaad ...