Flag Description:
three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black, colors associated with the Arab Liberation flag; two small, green, five-pointed stars in a horizontal line centered in the white band;
former flag of the United Arab Republic where the two stars represented the constituent states of Syria and Egypt;
similar to the flag of Yemen, which has a plain white band,
Iraq,
and that of Egypt; the current design dates to 1980
