Saraqib

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سراقب
Sarakeb
Sarakeb (Syria)
Sarakeb
Sarakeb
Coordinates 35 ° 52 '  N , 36 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 35 ° 52 '  N , 36 ° 48'  E
Basic data
Country Syria

Governorate

Idlib
District Idlib
ISO 3166-2 SY ID
height 370 m
Residents 32,495 (2004)

Saraqib , also Sarakeb ( Arabic سراقب, DMG Sarāqib ), is a city in Idlib Governorate in Syria .

In 2004 the city had 32,495 inhabitants. The excavation site of the ancient city of Ebla is located five kilometers south of the city .

history

During the civil war in Syria, the city moved into the spotlight of the world when the Syrian rebels executed 28 soldiers of the Assad regime on October 30, 2012 while fighting over three military bases. In April 2013 the government used the outlawed warfare agent sarin in Saraqib, which was subsequently materially proven to be the cause of death of a woman who died on April 29, 2013 near Saraqib.

In August 2016 there were reports of chlorine gas attacks that the United Nations blamed on the Assad regime.

On April 10, 2017, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported in a report that on April 8 and 9, cluster munitions were dropped by fighter planes on numerous areas in the governorates of Idlib and Hama . The city of Saraqib was also hit. On February 4, 2018, chlorine gas used as a weapon was released from cylinders.

Government troops reached the outskirts of the city in the course of their offensive along the M5 motorway in the first week of February 2020 and on February 5 there was heavy fighting with rebels, in which Turkish troops intervened after Turkish observers in the region were killed by Syrian government troops had been. Saraqib was in the hands of the Syrian government troops on February 8th and was retaken by insurgents with Turkish help on February 27th, before the warring parties fought for control in the first week of March 2020.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.citypopulation.de/Syria_d.html
  2. ^ Rebels execute soldiers in Sarakeb in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 2, 2012
  3. ↑ Journal of Forensic Toxicology 36 (2018) , pages 61 to 71
  4. ^ Syria: Civil defense reports poison gas attack in Sarakeb. In: Zeit Online. August 2, 2016, accessed May 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=22939&LangID=E
  6. ↑ John Davison: Warplanes drop incendiary bombs in Syria's Idlib, Hama: activists, monitor. Reuters, April 10, 2017, accessed April 10, 2017 .
  7. ↑ clashes in the western outskirts of Aleppo city and shelling targets the northern countryside of the city and raids on Saraqeb. SOHR, April 10, 2017, accessed April 10, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Traces of chlorine gas found in Sarakeb - tagesschau, May 16, 2018
  9. ↑ REPORT OF THE OPCW FACT-FINDING MISSION IN SYRIA REGARDING TO ALLEGED INCIDENT IN SARAQIB, SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC ON 4 FEBRUARY 2018 , OPCW, May 15, 2018
  10. ↑ "'Very dire' situation: EU calls for end to Syria bombing" aljazeera.com from February 6, 2020
  11. ^ "Syrian forces capture new areas from insurgents" The Guardian of February 8, 2020
  12. ↑ "Two Turkish soldiers killed as Syrian rebels regain key town" aljazeera.com of February 27, 2020
  13. ↑ "Saraqeb situation fluid as Syrian gov't, rebel groups fight on" aljazeera.com of March 3, 2020