Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict (Arabic: ناحية الجرنية, romanized:nahiyah al-Jarniyah) is a subdistrict of Al-Thawrah District in Raqqa Governorate (Syria), approximately 75 kilometres (47mi) west of Raqqa. The subdistrict population at the 2004 census was 31,786.[1]
Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict is bounded by Lake Assad to the West and South, Ayn al-Arab District of Aleppo Governorate to the North, and Raqqa District also of Raqqa Governorate to the East.
The administrative centre Al-Jarniyah and much of the subdistrict are currently controlled by SDF, following three years of control by ISIS and other rebel groups.[2]
Towns and villages
The towns and villages in Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict and their populations as at the 2004 census were:[3]
Abu Sakhra (أبو صخرة), 730
Abu Shamat - Abul Kalat (أبو الشامات_أبو الكالات), 525
Qal'at Ja'bar from the north, surrounded by the waters of Lake Assad
The castle of Qal'at Ja'bar, previously overlooking the Euphrates, but now an island in Lake Assad, lies close to Western Jaabar in the south of the subdistrict.
Syrian civil war
Main article: Battle of Raqqa (2013) §Background
By March 2013 Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict, with the rest of Raqqa countryside, had fallen into rebel hands.[5]
Main article: Raqqa campaign (2016-2017)
During December 2016 the Syrian Democratic Forces drove ISIS out of most Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict.
With the help of US special forces, Bir Shallal and nearby villages in the north-east of the nahiyah were taken over in mid December,[6] soon followed by a corridor stretching to Wasta on Lake Assad which cut off the west of the nahiyah which was subsequently taken over.[7] The largest town of the area, Mahmudli in the south west of the nahiyah, was taken over by the SDF at the start of 2017.[8]
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