Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani is set to raise his country's new flag at the UN headquarters in New York when he attends a Security Council briefing, the first public appearance by a high-ranking Syrian government official in the US since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad last December.
The three-starred flag previously been used by opposition groups during the country's civil conflict has now replaced the two-starred flag of the Assad era as the country's official emblem.
