Tabiyet Jazira, alternatively rendered as at Tabiyah, al Tabiyeh, Al Tabiyyah, Al Tabiya or Al Tabiah ( ar, طابية جزيرة), is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Deir ez-Zor District Deir ez-Zor District ( ar-at, منطقة دير الزور, mantiqah, manṭiqat Dair az-Zaur) is a Districts of Syria, district of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate in northeastern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Deir ez-Zor. At the 2004 ...

Deir ez-Zor Governorate Deir ez-Zor Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة دير الزور / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Dayr az-Zawr'') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in eastern Syria, bordering Iraq. It has an area of 33,060 km2 ( ...

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tabiyah had a population of 1,801 in the 2004 census.

Geography

Tabiyet Jazira is located on the

Euphrates The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Tigris–Euphrates river system, Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers'') ...

river, on the east bank. The Tabiya (or "Conoco", after the company

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) gas field and plant lie about to the north of the town.

History

On February 7, 2018, during the

Battle of Khasham On 7 February 2018, the coalition established in 2014 to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) delivered massive air and artillery strikes on the Syrian pro-government forces near the towns of Khasham and Al Tabiyeh in the Dei ...

of the Syrian civil war, a pro-regime Syrian tribal militia group advanced under cover of night from Tabiyet Jazira and attacked a

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(SDF) base near

Khasham Khasham ( ar, خِشَام, Khišām) is a Syrian town located in Deir ez-Zor District, Deir ez-Zor , population_urban = , population_density_urban_km2 = , population_density_urban_sq_mi = , population_blank1_title = Ethnicities ...

. The attack was unsuccessful, as the SDF's American allies "struck back with their entire destructive arsenal", leading to high casualties among the pro-regime forces, including Russian mercenary Wagner Group soldiers.

References

Populated places in Deir ez-Zor Governorate Populated places on the Euphrates River {{Syria-geo-stub