Naturally, however, there is a larger story to the symbol. The Rebel symbol is a circular glyph that resembles a bird. Two points at its 11 o'clock and 1 o'clock positions resemble wingtips ...

“Is it okay to use the rebel icon symbol if you do it obliquely, hopefully not hitting it on the head too hard? It’s hard to know exactly how subtle you can be with this stuff,” Heinrichs wrote.

People dismantled other symbols of Bashar al-Assad and his father, defacing public portraits and ransacking the presidential palace. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), one of the Syrian rebel groups that ...