Back تل رفعت Arabic Tall Rif‘at (kapital sa subdistrito) CEB Tall Rifaat German Tel Rifat DIQ Tal Rifaat Spanish تل رفعت Persian Tell Rifaat Finnish Tall Rifaat French תל רפעת HE Tell Rifaat Hungarian
Tell Rifaat
تل رفعت | |
|---|---|
City | |
 Tell Rifaat in 2015 | |
  Tell Rifaat Location of Tell Rifaat in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 36°28′24″N 37°05′50″E / 36.4733°N 37.0972°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Aleppo |
| District | Azaz |
| Subdistrict | Tell Rifaat |
| Control |  Turkey Syrian transitional government[1] |
| Elevation | 457 m (1,499 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Geocode | C1621 |
Tell Rifaat (Arabic: تل رفعت, romanized: Tall Rifʿat, also spelled Tel Rifaat, Tel Rif'at or Tal Rifaat) is a city in northern Aleppo Governorate, northwestern Syria. Located roughly 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Aleppo, the city is the administrative center of Nahiya Tell Rifaat. Nearby localities include Azaz to the north, Mare' to the east, Kafr Naya to the south, Deir Jmal and Oqayba to the southwest and Ibbin Samaan to the west. In the 2004 census, Tell Rifaat had a population of 20,514. Its inhabitants are Arabs.[2]
During the Syrian Civil War, Tell Rifaat was captured by the Free Syrian Army in 2012, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014, and the Islamic Front in 2015. During this time, the town was bombed several times by the government of Ba'athist Syria and its allies. Tell Rifaat was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces on 16 February 2016 after heavy Russian air strikes which destroyed all three health facilities in the town.[3] Following a rebel offensive against the SAA in December 2024, the town once again fell under control of the Turkish-backed rebel forces (SNA & SIG) and was not incorporated into the Syrian Transitional Government until January 2025.[4][1]
- ^ a b "The Status of Syria's Transition After Two Months". The Washington Institute. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
- ^ "2004 Census Data for Nahiya Tell Rifaat" (in Arabic). Syrian Central Bureau of Statistics. Also available in English: UN OCHA. "2004 Census Data". Humanitarian Data Exchange.
- ^ "Syrian and Russian forces targeting hospitals as a strategy of war". Amnesty International. 2016-06-03. Archived from the original on 2016-05-13. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
aawas invoked but never defined (see the help page).