Hbit الهبيط | |
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Town | |
  Hbit Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:35°26′24″N36°32′12″E / 35.44000°N 36.53667°E /35.44000; 36.53667 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Idlib |
| District | Maarrat al-Nu'man |
| Subdistrict | Khan Shaykhun |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 10,144 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| City Qrya Pcode | C3989 |
Hbit (Arabic:الهبيط, sometimes spelledHobait,al-Hubait oral-Habit) is aSyriantown located inKhan Shaykhun Nahiyah inMaarrat al-Nu'man District,Idlib. According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS),Hbit had a population of 10,144 in the 2004 census.[1] Nearby localities includeKafr Nabudah to the west,Khan Shaykhun to the east andKafr Zita andAl-Lataminah to the southeast.
According toAl-Masdar News, the al-Qaeda-linkedTahrir al-Sham group had a headquarter in the village and killed 11 children. On 3 April 2017, the HQ was targeted with guided missiles fired from two RussianSukhoi Su-25 aircraft.[2] According to theSyrian Network for Human Rights, the children Ahmad and Mariam Abdulla al-Abood were killed by missiles fired from Russian aircraft.[3] In the evening, Mohamed Rashid, a spokesman for the FSA-affiliatedJaysh al-Nasr ("Army of Victory") said, the "Assad regime conducted a chlorine attack" on the village but was hoax. Local activists said, "regime helicopters" dropped two containers of toxic gas on the village, killing "two children from the same family" and injured 20 more.[4][5]On 11 August 2019, the Syrian army recaptured the town.[6]
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