Al-Sabaa wa Arbain (Arabic: السبعة وأربعين, romanized: as-Sabʿa wa-ʾArbaʿīn) is a town in southern al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.
al-Sabaa wa Arbain
السبعة وأربعين | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 36°04′52″N 40°39′23″E / 36.0811°N 40.6564°E | |
Country | Syria |
Governorate | al-Hasakah |
District | al-Hasakah |
Subdistrict | al-Shaddadah |
Population (2004)[1] | 14,177 |
Time zone | UTC 2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC 3 (EEST) |
Geocode | C4441 |
Administratively, the town belongs to the Nahiya al-Shaddadah subdistrict of the al-Hasakah District. At the time of the 2004 census, it had a population of 14,177.[1] Nearby localities include al-Shaddadeh to the east.
Syrian civil war
editOn 10 January 2023, joint forces of the US-led coalition and forces of the SDF launched a counter-terror operation in the village, where 2 ISIS fighters had barricaded themselves inside a house. One ISIS militant killed himself by detonating a suicide vest and the other was shot dead by the joint forces.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "2004 Census Data for Nahiya al-Shaddadah" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
- ^ "Spotlight on Global Jihad (12 – 18 January, 2023)". 19 January 2022.