Al-Khafsah

Al-Khafsah

Al-Khafsah

Village in Aleppo, Syria

Al-Khafsah (Arabic: الخفسة), also spelled Khafsa, is a village located 77 kilometers (48 mi) east of Aleppo in northern Syria. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 5,393.[1]

Al-Khafsah is the administrative center of Al-Khafsah Subdistrict of the Manbij District.
Quick Facts الخفسة, Country ...

In June 2016, the village was under control of ISIL.[2] On 8 September 2016, ISIL evacuated its headquarters in al-Bab and moved it to Al Khafsah with dozens of vehicles carrying militants and weapons. This came a day after Turkish-led rebel forces expressed their goal of capturing al-Bab.[3] On the evening of 7 March 2017, Khafsa was captured by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).[4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Al-Khafsah" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
  2. [2]
    "عشرات القتلى والجرحى بقصف جوي روسي بريف حلب الشرقي". AlAraby. 28 June 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Islamic State evacuating headquarters in Syria's al-Bab". ARA News. 8 September 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-09-17. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
  4. [4]
    "Syrian army captures water station supplying Aleppo from Islamic State". 7 March 2017.
  5. [5]
    "ISIS villages surrounded in Aleppo as the Syrian Army captures Al-Khafsah". Al Masdar News. 7 March 2017. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Al-Khafsah, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.