Qabasin

Qabasin (Arabic: قباسين‎, Kurdish: Qebasîn‎), or Başköy (Turkish: Başköy, Arabic: باش كوي‎) or Kıbbesin (Arabic: قبة ياسين‎, romanized: Kubbaseen) is a town located northeast of the city of Al-Bab in northern Syria. It is administratively part of the Al-Bab nahiya in the Al-Bab District of the Aleppo Governorate. The town had a population of 11,382 in 2004.[1] A nearby town is Arima, to the north-east. The town includes a Kurdish community.[2]

Qabasin قباسين Başköy (باش كوي)
Town
Qabasin Location of Qabasin in Syria
Coordinates: 36°26′09″N 37°34′06″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Aleppo
District	al-Bab
Subdistrict	al-Bab
Control	Turkey Syrian Interim Government
Population  (2004)[1]	11,382
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Geocode	C1209

Syrian civil war

During the Syrian civil war, the town was initially captured by the Syrian opposition and later by ISIL. ISIL kidnapped hundreds of Kurdish civilians from the town and executed dozens of them between 2014 and 2016.[3]

On 23 February 2017, the Syrian National Army and the Turkish army captured the town from ISIL as well as the nearby towns of B'zaa and al-Bab after months of fighting, both towns are presently under Turkish occupation. [4][5]

References

1. "2004 Census Data for Nahiya al-Bab" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
2. مسلم, علي (2016-06-14). "الكورد في منطقة الباب (الجغرافيا – عدد السكان – الواقع السياسي)". مدارات كرد (in Arabic). Retrieved 2019-01-21.
3. Syrian Democratic Forces further advance into Manbij, fear genocide against Kurds by ISIS
4. "The "Islamic State" organization withdraws from Bzaah and Qabasin and inspection operations continue in al-Bab city and kill 7 fighters in mine explosion". SOHR. 2017-02-23. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
5. "ISIS in full-scale retreat as the Turkish Army seizes two large towns neighboring Al-Bab". Al-Masdar News. 23 February 2017.