Dair Hafir
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دير حافر Dair Hafir |
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 9 ′ N , 37 ° 42 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Syria | ||
| Aleppo | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | SY-HL | ||
| height | 340 m | ||
| Residents | 18,948 (2004) | ||
Dair Hafir or Deir Hafir ( Arabic دير حافر, DMG Dayr Ḥāfir ) is a Syrian city in Aleppo Governorate . The place with the Al-Jira military airfield is a good 50 km east of Aleppo on the highway from Aleppo to ar-Raqqa . The population was 18,948 in 2004.
During the Syrian Civil War , the regional city came under the control of insurgents from 2011 and from 2014 under the control of the Islamic State terrorist group . Syrian government troops recaptured the site in March 2017.