Iblin, Syria

Iblin (Arabic: أبلين), also spelled Ibleen, is a village in the Arihah District in the Idlib Governorate in Syria. It is located in the Zawiya Mountain. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Iblin had a population of 2,949 in the 2004 census.^[1]

Iblin إبلين
Village
Iblin Location in Syria
Coordinates: 35°42′58″N 36°31′09″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Idlib
District	Ariha
Subdistrict	Ihsim
Population  (2004)
• Total	2,949
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	+3
City Qrya Pcode	C4292

Syrian Civil War

See also: Syrian civil war, Timeline of the Syrian civil war (2021), and Northwestern Syria offensive (December 2019–March 2020)

Hussein Harmoush, the Syrian military officer who famously was among the first to defect from the Ba’athist Syrian army and who founded the Free Officers Movement during the early stages of the Syrian Civil War, was born and raised in the village of Iblin.^[2]

During the later years of the Syrian Civil War, the village became occupied by Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Jihadist opposition faction. After the Syrian Army's 'Dawn of Idlib 2' campaign in 2020, the village became situated near the frontline of fighting in the area.

On 10 June 2021, 4 civilians and 9 Tahrir al-Sham fighters were killed in a Syrian army rocket attack on the village. The spokesperson of the military wing of HTS, Abu Khaled al-Shamy and the media coordinator in the HTS military media department, Abu Mosa’ab were both killed.^[3]