Syrian foreign minister raises new flag at UN headquarters

Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani raised his country’s new flag at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday, in what he called a “historic” moment.

Shaibani “raises the new Syrian flag in front of the United Nations building in New York”, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

Images showed Shaibani raising the three-starred flag officially adopted after the December ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. The flag had become a symbol of the revolt against Assad’s…