Eshtabraq

Eshtabraq (Arabic: اشتبرق) is a Syrian village in Jisr al-Shughur Nahiyah in Jisr al-Shughur District, Idlib. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), it had a population of 1,187 in the 2004 census, the majority of whom are Alawites.^[1]

Eshtabraq اشتبرق
Village
Eshtabraq Location in Syria
Coordinates: 35°47′31″N 36°17′43″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Idlib
District	Jisr al-Shughur District
Subdistrict	Jisr al-Shughur Nahiyah
Population  (2004)
• Total	1,187
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
City Qrya Pcode	C4198

On 25 April 2015, a massacre occurred in the village after the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra and its Islamist allies in the "Army of Conquest" seized Jisr al-Shughour during their spring offensive that year. They attacked and captured the Alawite village of Eshtabraq and killed over 200 of its residents forcing the remainder to flee.^[2][3][4]