Since the announcement of the new visual identity on July 3, 2025, the Independence Flag – the flag of the Syrian Revolution – has disappeared from the official scene, remaining only present on the protocol flags of official photographs.
National identity has been reduced to the “new eagle,” while the symbol of the revolution has declined in appearance on decision papers, invitations, publications, and even on some ministry and municipal fronts. Most civil society organizations quickly followed suit, designing their logos in the image of the eagle, absent the national flag.
Indeed, the eagle is now hung on the chests of the official uniforms worn by senior officials, a scene that reinforces the absence of the Syrian Revolution flag, as if the country were without a flag.
It might be said that the new authority wanted to highlight the legitimacy of liberation and its own symbols, but the primary national reference upon which the state was founded was the legitimacy of the revolution and its popular bearer, embodied by the Independence Flag.
This flag is not just a piece of cloth; it is the memory of a people and a symbol of revolution and independence battles. Millions have carried it for fourteen years, and martyrs have gathered around it and been buried wrapped in it, just as it was the banner of the liberation battles against French colonialism before them.
It is the only symbol capable of delegitimizing the regime and its remnants, and it unites the single national project embraced by generations of revolution and liberation.
The absence of the flag from the public eye is not a trivial detail; it is an attack on popular and national legitimacy. A state born from the womb of the revolution must not disavow its first symbol.
Let the new state emblem be raised and honored in its place, but before and after everything else, the flag of the Syrian revolution must be raised, the symbol of unifying national legitimacy and the symbol of the revolution that birthed the new Syria.
