Tell Rifaat (Arabic: تل رفعت, romanized: Tall Rifʿat, also spelled Tel Rifaat, Tel Rif'at or Tal Rifaat) is a city in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria. Located roughly 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Aleppo, the town is the administrative center of Nahiya Tell Rifaat. Nearby localities include Azaz to the north, Mare' to the east, Kafr Naya to the south, Deir Jmal and Oqayba to the southwest and Ibbin Samaan to the west. In the 2004 census, Tell Rifaat had a population of 20,514.[1]
During the Syrian Civil War, Tell Rifaat was captured by the Free Syrian Army in 2012, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014, and the Islamic Front in 2015. During this time, the town was bombed several times by the Syrian government and its allies. Tell Rifaat was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces on 16 February 2016 after heavy Russian air strikes which destroyed all three health facilities in the town.[2]
^ ab"2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tell Rifaat" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
^"Syrian and Russian forces targeting hospitals as a strategy of war". Amnesty International. 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
TellRifaat (Arabic: تل رفعت, romanized: Tall Rifʿat, also spelled Tel Rifaat, Tel Rif'at or Tal Rifaat) is a city in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern...
The 2019 TellRifaat Clashes were a military confrontation between Turkey and allied Free Syrian Army groups against the Kurdish People's Protection Units...
TellRifaat Subdistrict (Arabic: ناحية تل رفعت, romanized: Nāḥiyah Tel Rif'at) is a subdistrict of Azaz District in northwestern Aleppo Governorate of...
operations against SDF. 12 April - Turkish forces shelled YPG positions near TellRifaat. The YPG responded by shelling positions under Turkish and allied rebel...
districts subordinate to it), as well as the Shahba Canton consisting of the TellRifaat area (with the Ahraz, Fafin and Kafr Naya districts subordinate to it)...
Qabasin Military Council Akhtarin Military Council Menagh Military Council TellRifaat Military Council Deir ez-Zor Unified Military Council Raqqa Military...
surrounded Shaykh Issa, just east of TellRifaat. Turkish artillery shelling and air strikes mainly focused on TellRifaat, Shaykh Issa and villages under...
surrounded Shaykh Issa, just east of Tell Rifaat. Turkish artillery shelling and air strikes mainly focused on TellRifaat, Shaykh Issa and villages under SDF...
early 2018, though the administrative division continued to operate from TellRifaat which is under joint YPG-Syrian Army control. On 6 September 2018, during...
(later evolved in Neo-Assyrian as Ḫazazu). In excavations of the site of Tell Azaz, considerable quantities of ceramics from the early and middle Islamic...
Aleppo, it is administratively part of Nahiya TellRifaat in A'zaz District. Nearby localities include TellRifaat and Mare' to the east, A'zaz to the north...
Nahiya TellRifaat in A'zaz District, it had a population of 2,851 as per the 2004 census. Nearby localities include Kafr Naya to the west, TellRifaat to...
attacked the rebels, capturing the Menagh Military Airbase and the town of TellRifaat. In response, Turkish forces shelled SDF positions across the border...
Aleppo Governorate, located north of Aleppo. Nearby localities include TellRifaat and Kafr Naya to the north, Mare' to the northeast, Bayanoun, Mayer and...
government of the Afrin Region now administers only the area around TellRifaat. The population of the Afrin Canton area was overwhelmingly ethnic Kurdish...
occupation of northern Syria. The Afrin Region was reduced to an area around TellRifaat. In September 2018, the regions of Raqqa, Tabqa, Manbij and Deir ez-Zor...
of Nahiya TellRifaat in A'zaz District, the village has a population of 1,433 as per the 2004 census. Nearby localities include TellRifaat to the north...
in Al-Bab. On 2 June 2015, barrel bombs killed at least 18 people in TellRifaat, 11 people in Jubb al-Qubbeh in east Aleppo, and 8 members of one family...
with the Syrian Democratic Forces. The Conquest Brigade was founded at TellRifaat in late July 2012 as unification of three rebel groups that had previously...
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