Azaz

Government

Azaz (Arabic أعزاز, DMG A ʿ ZAZ; alternative spellings Azas or Asa ), is a Syrian city. It is located in the province of Aleppo and has about 70,000 inhabitants.

Location

Azaz is located about 50 kilometers north of the city of Aleppo and seven kilometers south of the Turkish border.

History

At the Battle of Azaz Azaz between the Crusader States and the Seljuk Turks took place on June 11, 1125. It ended with a victory for the Crusaders and allowed them to recover much of their influence they had lost after their defeat at the Battle of Ager Sanguinis.

1981 counted 16,557 residents and in September 2004, 31,623 inhabitants lived in the city.

In the course of the civil war captured on July 20, 2012 fighters of the Free Syrian Army ( FSA) of the city. In the previous battles, the main mosque of the city was destroyed. She was due to its location on a hill in a strategically valuable position. On September 18, 2013, the al - Qaeda organization associated conquered Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the city of the rebel brigade Northern Storm ( Asifat Liwa al - Schamal ).

On October 3, ISIS Liwa al - Tawheed, Jaish al -Islam, Squr al -Sham, Liwa al - Furqan and Liwa al - Ḥaǧǧ was of the Islamist rebel groups Ahrar al -Sham, asked in a public statement, to be in withdraw headquarters.