Ra's al-'Ayn camps (also Ras ul-Ain camps) were desert death camps near the city of Ras al-Ayn, where many Armenians were deported and slaughtered during...
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Ras al-Ayn (Arabic: رَأْس ٱلْعَيْن, romanized: Raʾs al-ʿAyn, Kurdish: سەرێ کانیێ, romanized: Serê Kaniyê, Classical Syriac: ܪܝܫ ܥܝܢܐ, romanized: Rēš Aynā)...
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The Battle of Ras al-Ayn (8 November 2012 – 20 July 2013) was a series of armed clashes for control of the town of Ras al-Ayn (Kurdish: Serê Kaniyê) during...
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The Second Battle of Ras al-Ayn occurred during the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria, as part of the Rojava conflict of the Syrian Civil...
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Kobani (redirect from Ayn Al Arab)
Kobani, officially Ayn al-Arab, is a Kurdish-majority city in northern Syria, lying immediately south of the Syria–Turkey border. As a consequence of the...
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launch an assault on Iraq. In the three-day long battle that ensued at Ras al-Ayn, the small Penitent army was annihilated and its senior leaders, including...
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500 Armenians. During the course of the war, many were sent to the Ras al-'Ayn Camps, though some managed to escape to the Sinjar Mountain with help from...
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The YPG also took control over parts of the towns of Ras al-Ayn (Kurdish: Serê Kaniyê) and al-Darbasiyah (Kurdish: Dirbêsî), after government security...
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Ain al-Hilweh (Arabic: عين الحلوة, lit. meaning "sweet natural spring"), also spelled as Ayn al-Hilweh and Ein El Hilweh, is the largest Palestinian refugee...
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2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria (category Al-Hasakah Governorate in the Syrian civil war)
clashes in besieged Ras al-Ayn. The SDF claimed that Turkey was violating the ceasefire and of shelling civilian areas of Ras al-Ayn. An unnamed US official...
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Rojava–Islamist conflict (redirect from 2013 Al-Hasakah offensive)
city of Ras al-Ayn. Kurdish forces launched a campaign in an attempt to take control of the Islamist-controlled areas in the governorate of al-Hasakah...
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(Lebanon) Beaufort Castle Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, including Ain al-Hilweh, Nabatieh camp and Wavel Ras al-Ain, Lebanon Israeli occupation of Southern...
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villages around Ayn Issa with rockets, UAVs and heavy weapons. As a result of fighting in Ayn Issa, guards of the Ayn Issa refugee camp left their posts...
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Brigade (Arabic: لواء التحرير, Liwa al-Tahrir) is a FSA-affiliated rebel group that was formed in the city of Ras al-Ayn, part of the northern Hasakah Governorate...
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the site since the 16th century, has historically been referred to as Ras Al-Ayn (Arabic: رأس العين, same meaning as the Hebrew name). There was a Palestinian...
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would use Ras al-Ayn as a base to seize control of Tell Abyad, and link the Kobanî and Jazira Cantons. ISIL also wanted control of Ras al-Ayn and Tell...
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reportedly lived in an area near the Ayn al-Bayda camp in the Jarablus region, where he was known as Abu Abdo Al-Hamwi among local Islamic State members...
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Turkish occupation of northern Syria (category Al-Hasakah Governorate in the Syrian civil war)
over 1,000 settlements, including towns such as al-Bab, Azaz, Jarabulus, Rajo, Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn. The majority of these settlements had been captured...
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the offensive operations in the western Al-Hasakah Governorate ended, the part of the offensive in the Ras al-Ayn District expanded into the Tell Abyad...
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and 2013, during the Syrian Civil War, most notably in the Battle of Ras al-Ayn. Hilali was born in 1979 in the city of Qamishli, in the northern Hasakah...
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Latakia (redirect from Ras Ziyarah)
To the Ottomans, it was known as Lazkiye. The location of Latakia, the Ras Ziyarah promontory, has a long history of occupation. The Phoenician city...
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Siege of Kobanî (redirect from Siege of Kobane/Ayn al-Arab)
the Kobanî Canton and its main city of Kobanî (also known as Kobanê or Ayn al-Arab) in northern Syria, in the de facto autonomous region of Rojava. By...
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Islamic State. The formation of the IFB was announced in June 2015 in Ras al-Ayn. Inspiration for the group came from the International Brigades of the...
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forces in the Battle of Ras al-Ayn (2012–13). The group was kicked out of Yaroubiya in October 2013 after it was claimed by the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic...
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as well as the Al-Hawl, Newroz and Roj refugee camps. There were also branches in Afrin and Ras al-Ayn before the capture of these towns by Turkey and...
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2024 anti-Turkish riots in Syria (category Al-Hasakah Governorate in the Syrian civil war)
through the Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing after a two day hiatus. In the town of Ras al-Ayn, fighters from the Hamza Division and Ahrar al-Sharqiya, along...
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Iyad ibn Ghanm (redirect from Iyad ibn Ghanm al-Fihri)
Mawzin, Iyad attempted to take Ras al-Ayn, but retreated after stiff resistance. Later, he dispatched Umayr ibn Sa'd al-Ansari to take the city. Umayr...
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Islamic State (redirect from Dawlat al Islamiya fi Iraq wa al Sham)
described Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda associates as operators of a network of terrorist training camps. The UN's Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee first...
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Ibrahim Daas al-Harbi was appointed the commander of the eastern sector of the region, Major Muhammad Riad Noura as commander of the Ras al-Ayn sector, and...
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Tell Abyad offensive (redirect from Al-Raqqah Offensive (June 2015))
countryside, and wide parts of Ras al-Ayn countryside. On 31 May, Kurdish forces seized four villages on the provincial boundary between Al-Hasakah and Raqqa. At...
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