Al-Sabaa wa Arbain

Al-Sabaa wa Arbain (Arabic: السبعة وأربعين, romanized: as-Sabʿa wa-ʾArbaʿīn, Kurdish: Seba û Erbîyn) is a town in southern al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.

al-Sabaa wa Arbain السبعة وأربعين
Town
al-Sabaa wa Arbain Location of al-Sabaa wa Arbain in Syria
Coordinates: 36°04′52″N 40°39′23″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	al-Hasakah
District	al-Hasakah
Subdistrict	al-Shaddadah
Control	Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Population  (2004)[1]	14,177
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Geocode	C4441

Administratively, the town belongs to the Nahiya al-Shaddadah subdistrict of the al-Hasakah District. At the time of the 2004 census, it had a population of 14,177.^[1] Nearby localities include al-Shaddadeh to the east.

Civil war

See also: Syrian civil war

On 10 January 2023, joint forces of the US-led coalition and forces of the SDF launched a counter-terror operation in the village, where 2 ISIS fighters had barricaded themselves inside a house. One ISIS militant killed himself by detonating a suicide vest and the other was shot dead by the joint forces.^[2]