al-Baghuz Fawqani

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الباغوز فوقاني / al-Bāġūz Fawqānī
Al-Baghuz Fawqani
Al-Baghuz Fawqani (Syria)
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Coordinates 34 ° 28 ′  N , 40 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 34 ° 28 ′  N , 40 ° 57 ′  E
Basic data
Country Syria

Governorate

Deir ez-Zor
District al-Bukamal
ISO 3166-2 SY-DY
Nahiya Susa
Residents 10,689 (2004)

al-Baghuz Fawqani ( Arabic الباغوز فوقاني, DMG al-Bāġūz Fawqānī , Kurdish Baxoz ) is a town in the al-Bukamal district in Deir ez-Zor governorate in eastern Syria . It is on the left side of the Euphrates . A bridge over the river connects the place with Abu Kamal . In the 2004 census, the place had a good 10,000 inhabitants.

Battle 2019

Baghuz in March 2019, with Abu Kamal on the other side of the river in the background.

al-Baghuz Fawqani was in the civil war in Syria in January 2019 in an area of ​​four square kilometers that was the last to be held by IS in Syria. The fighting continued in early March 2019. On the morning of March 23, 2019, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces announced the conquest of the last remnants of the IS area in al-Baghuz and thus the end of the IS caliphate .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Syrian census 2004. ( xls , 2.5 MB) In: humanitarianresponse.info. August 17, 2011, accessed March 6, 2019 (Arabic, English).
  2. ↑ Former IS area shrunk to four square kilometers. In: Tages-Anzeiger . January 28, 2019, accessed March 5, 2019 . Fight against terrorist militia: IS loses most of its last bastion in eastern Syria. In: Spiegel Online . February 14, 2019, accessed February 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Gudrun Harrer: More and more IS fighters are mingling in the Exodus from Baghouz. In: derStandard.at . March 6, 2019, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Richard Hall: "Isis caliphate defeated: Victory declared as Islamic State loses last of its territory" The Independent of March 23, 2019