Qabasin

Qabasin (Arabic: قبّاسين, romanized: Qabbāsīn) is a town located northeast of the city of Al-Bab in northern Syria. It is administratively part of the Al-Bab nahiya in the Al-Bab District of the Aleppo Governorate. 11,382 people lived in the town in 2004.^[1] A nearby town is Arima, to the north-east. The town is inhabited by Turkmen^[2] and Arabs.^[3]

Qabasin قباسين Başköy (باش كوي)
Town
Qabasin Location of Qabasin in Syria
Coordinates: 36°26′09″N 37°34′06″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Aleppo
District	al-Bab
Subdistrict	al-Bab
Control	Turkey Syrian Interim Government
Population  (2004)[1]	11,382
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Geocode	C1209

Syrian civil war

During the Syrian civil war, the town was initially captured by the Syrian opposition and later by ISIL. On 23 February 2017, the Syrian National Army and the Turkish Armed Forces captured the town from ISIL as well as the nearby towns of B'zaa and al-Bab after months of fighting.^[4]