Al-Dirbasiyah (Arabic: ٱلدَّرْبَاسِيَّة, romanized: ad-Dirbāsīyah, Kurdish: دربێسی, romanized: Dirbêsiyê) is a Syrian town on the Syria–Turkey border opposite the Turkish town of Şenyurt. Administratively it is part of the Al-Hasakah Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Dirbasiyah had a population of 8,551 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 113 localities with a combined population of 55,614 in 2004.[1] The majority of the inhabitants of the town are Kurds and Arabs and a smaller Assyrian minority.[2]
Al-Dirbasiyah
Arabic: ٱلدَّرْبَاسِيَّة | |
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Town | |
  Al-Dirbasiyah Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 37°4′22″N 40°39′7″E | |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | Ras al-Ayn |
| Subdistrict | al-Darbasiyah |
| Control |  Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| Elevation | 300 m (1,000 ft) |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 8,551 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
| Area code | 52 |
It is connected by road to Tell Beydar in the south.
Civil war
On 22 July 2012, during the Syrian Civil War, Kurdish-led YPG forces took control over the town, after Syrian government forces, following an ultimatum issued by the YPG, withdrew from it. The town was thus brought into the AANES.[3][4] The Syrian Army entered the town in October 2019, as part of the Second Northern Syria Buffer Zone Agreement.[5]
On 16 July 2020, an unknown UAV suspected to be Turkish carried out a strike against a Russian coordination point south of al-Dirbasiyah.[6] Two Russian soldiers, one SAA member and two members of the Asayish were injured in the strike.[7]
References
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