Iblin إبلين | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Iblin Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:35°42′58″N36°31′09″E / 35.71611°N 36.51917°E /35.71611; 36.51917 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Idlib |
| District | Ariha |
| Subdistrict | Ihsim |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 2,949 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
| City Qrya Pcode | C4292 |
Iblin (Arabic:أبلين), also spelledIbleen, is a village in theArihah District in theIdlib Governorate inSyria. It is located in theZawiya Mountain. According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Iblin had a population of 2,949 in the 2004 census.[1]
Hussein Harmoush, theSyrian military officer who famously was among the first to defect from theBa’athist Syrian army and who founded theFree Officers Movement during the early stages of the Syrian Civil War, was born and raised in the village of Iblin.[2]
During the later years of the Syrian Civil War, the village became occupied byTahrir al-Sham (HTS), aJihadistopposition faction. After the Syrian Army's 'Dawn of Idlib 2' campaign in 2020, the village became situated near the frontline of fighting in the area.
On 10 June 2021, 4 civilians and 9Tahrir al-Sham fighters were killed in a Syrian army rocket attack on the village. The spokesperson of the military wing of HTS, Abu Khaled al-Shamy and the media coordinator in the HTS military media department, Abu Mosa’ab were both killed.[3]
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