The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria.

Among the various emoji updates in Apple's iOS 18.4, users might notice that Syria's flag emoji has been changed to reflect the rapid developments that have taken place since December.

Syrians are now calling mobile companies to change the Syrian flag emoji to the Syrian opposition flag which consists of green, white and black colors along with three red stars in the middle.

Apple also updated the Syrian flag Emoji to reflect the current de facto flag of the country. It has a green, white, and black stripe with three red stars across the center. For the moment ...

People in Syria and those across the world have taken to the streets to celebrate the end of dictator Bashar Al Assad's brutal regime, raising an alternative version of the country's official flag.

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all ...