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Al-Yaarubiyah (Arabic: ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة, romanized: al-Yaʿrubīyah; Kurdish: تلکۆچەر, romanized: Til Koçer)[1] is a town in al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Yaarubiyah had a population of 6,066 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 62 localities^{[citation needed]} with a combined population of 39,459 in 2004.[2]

Al-Yaarubiyah ٱلْيَعْرُبِيَّة
Town
Al-Yaarubiyah
Coordinates: 36°48′42″N 42°3′59″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	al-Hasakah
District	al-Malikiyah
Subdistrict	al-Yaarubiyah
Control	Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Population  (2004)
• Total	6,066
Time zone	UTC+3 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)

Its population are mostly Arabs of the Shammar tribe. In the course of the civil war, the town initially came under the control of jihadist rebels, including the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State, but was later captured by the YPG,[3] bringing it into the AANES.

Border post

The town was the border post between French-Syria and British-Iraq and had a railway station on the Baghdad Railway.

It is twinned by Rabia on the Iraqi side of the border.

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