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. Scores of ...

There are many reasons you might use an emoji flag. Perhaps you want to tout your nation’s performance in the World Cup, salute the national cuisine that gave us sushi, or refer obliquely to ...

We already have these brilliant 72 new emojis (including Bacon and Harambe) heading to our iPhones, but thanks to the Unicode Consortium, we could be getting a few more patriotic-themed editions too.

Don't expect to see new flags in your phone's emoji any time soon. The Unicode Consortium has warned it will "no longer accept proposals" for flag emoji, regardless of category. They're more trouble ...

This past February, 157 new emoji were released by the Unicode Consortium, the organization that approves standardized digital symbols. Missing from that list is a transgender flag emoji. But the ...