Aʿzāz
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أعزاز / Aʿzāz Azaz |
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 35 ' N , 37 ° 3' E | ||
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| Country | Syria | ||
| Aleppo | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | SY-HL | ||
| Residents | 70,000 (2012) | ||
 Mosque in Azaz, which has since been destroyed (2010)
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Aʿzāz , alternative spellings Azas or Asas ( Arabic أعزاز, DMG Aʿzāz ), is a Syrian city. It is located in Aleppo Governorate and has about 70,000 inhabitants.
location
Azaz is located about 50 kilometers north of the city of Aleppo and seven kilometers south of the Turkish border and the Bab al-Salameh border crossing .
history
The Battle of Azaz between the Crusader States and the Seljuks took place near Azaz on June 11, 1125 . It ended in a victory for the Crusaders and allowed them to restore much of the influence they had lost after their defeat at the Battle of Ager Sanguinis .
In 1981 there were 16,557 inhabitants and in September 2004 there were 31,623 inhabitants in the city.
In the course of the civil war , fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) conquered the city on July 20, 2012 . The main mosque in the city was destroyed in the previous fighting. Due to its location on a hill, it was in a strategically valuable position. On September 18, 2013, the organization Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) , which was then still part of al-Qaeda , captured the city from the rebel brigade “Northern Storm” ( Liwa Asifat al-Shamal ).
On October 3, 2013, the Islamist rebel groups Ahrar al-Sham , Liwa al-Tauhid , Jaish al-Islam , Squr al-Sham, Liwa al-Furqān and Liwa al-Ḥaǧǧ issued a public statement calling on ISIS to withdraw To withdraw Azaz, end fighting with rival Northern Storm group, and face an Islamic court with their rivals in Aleppo.
In February 2016, Aʿzāz again moved into the focus of the civil war. After Kurdish people's defense units took the Menagh military airfield south of the village from a rebel group on February 11, they also concentrated on the rebel base in Aʿzāz, which in turn was used by Turkish authorities to move the Kurds out of Turkey from positions north of the City out to be bombarded with artillery . According to residents, Russian air strikes in Aʿzāz hit a hospital and school on February 15. On February 16, 2016, the Turkish authorities allowed around 800 alleged fighters of the Syrian opposition, who, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, were both so-called “moderate Syrian rebels” and supporters of more radical groups, to cross the border. In subsequent skirmishes between the rebels and the terrorist Islamic State , ISIS gained control of the city.
On August 23, 2016, Turkish troops marched into the city as part of their Operation Euphrates Shield and ousted ISIS. Since then, the city has been under the control of the Free Syrian Army.
On November 17, 2016, an IS car bomb exploded in front of an arsenal, leaving ten dead and two dozen injured.
In a car bomb attack by IS on January 7, 2017, 43 people died and more than 50 were injured.
On July 23, 2018, a suicide bomber set off a car bomb in front of a government building. One dead (and the assassin) and 23 injured were the result.
On June 2, 2019, a car bomb exploded near a market and mosque, killing 21 people and injuring 45.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jasper Mortimer: Liberated Syrian city of Azaz: "Today nobody likes Assad anymore". taz.de, July 29, 2012, accessed October 5, 2013 .
- ↑ http://www.citypopulation.de/Syria_d.html
- ↑ Loveday Morris and Suzan Haidamous: Al-Qaeda-linked fighters seize Syrian town of Azaz from more moderate rebels. Washington Post, September 19, 2013, accessed October 5, 2013 .
- ↑ Paul Wood: Isis seizure of Syria's Azaz exposes rebel rifts. BBC News, September 19, 2013, accessed October 5, 2013 .
- ^ AFP: Syria rebel groups tell Qaeda to quit border town. Yahoo! News, October 3, 2013, accessed February 16, 2016 .
- ^ Al-Khalidi: "Missiles hit school and hospital in Syrian border town, 14 dead: residents" , Reuters, February 15, 2016
- ↑ The Kurds in Syria: Friend or Foe? , Tagesschau.de from February 18, 2016
- ↑ Entry with GTD ID 201611170023 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Entry with GTD ID 201701070019 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on August 27, 2018 .
- ↑ المفخخات تضرب مناطق "درع الفرات" شمال حلب وسقوط ضحايا (صور). July 23, 2018, accessed March 24, 2019 (Arabic).
- ↑ Entry with GTD ID 201807230033 in the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland, accessed on February 15, 2020 .
- ^ Dozens killed in a bomb attack in northwestern Syria. In: Yeni Şafak . June 3, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019 .