Al-Yaarubiyah ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة | |
|---|---|
Town | |
| Coordinates:36°48′42″N42°3′59″E / 36.81167°N 42.06639°E /36.81167; 42.06639 | |
| Country | |
| Governorate | al-Hasakah |
| District | al-Malikiyah |
| Subdistrict | al-Yaarubiyah |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 6,066 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
Al-Yaarubiyah (Arabic:ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة,romanized: al-Yaʿrubīyah)[1] is a town inal-Hasakah Governorate,Syria. According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Yaarubiyah had a population of 6,066 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 62 localities[citation needed] with a combined population of 39,459 in 2004.[2]
Its population are mostlySunni MuslimArabs of theShammar tribe. During theSyrian civil war in March 2013, the town came under the control ofIslamistjihadist rebels, including theal-Nusra Front andAhrar al-Sham, butwas later captured byKurdishYPG forces in October 2013,[3] bringing it into the administration ofRojava. On January 20, 2026 the town came under the control of theSyrian transitional government.
The town was the border post between French-Syria and British-Iraq and had a railway station on theBaghdad Railway. It is twinned byRabia on the Iraqi side of the border.

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