Iblin, Syria

Coordinates: 35°42′58″N 36°31′09″E / 35.71611°N 36.51917°E / 35.71611; 36.51917
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Iblin
إبلين
Village
UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3
City Qrya PcodeC4292

Iblin (

Zawiya Mountain. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Iblin had a population of 2,949 in the 2004 census.[1]

Syrian Civil War

See also: Syrian civil war, Timeline of the Syrian civil war (2021), and Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–March 2020)

During the Syrian Civil War, the village became occupied by

Jihadist opposition
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 9 Tahrir 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  2. ^ "Death toll update | Deaths rise to 13 due to rocket fire yesterday on Jabal al-Zawiyah • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights". 11 June 2021.
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