Al-Dirbasiyah
ٱلدَّرْبَاسِيَّة دربێسی | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 37°4′22″N 40°39′7″E / 37.07278°N 40.65194°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 |
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][ better source needed]
It is connected by road to Tell Beydar in the south.
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]