Eshtabraq

Eshtabraq (Arabic: اشتبرق) is a Syrian village in Jisr al-Shughur Nahiyah in Jisr al-Shughur District, Idlib. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), it had a population of 1187 in the 2004 census.

Eshtabraq
اشتبرق
Village
Eshtabraq
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 35°47′31″N 36°17′43″E
Country Syria
GovernorateIdlib
DistrictJisr al-Shughur District
SubdistrictJisr al-Shughur Nahiyah
Population
 (2004)
  Total1,187
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
City Qrya PcodeC4198

On 25 April 2015, after Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamist allies in the "Army of Conquest" seized Jisr al-Shughour, they attacked the Alawite village of Eshtabraq and killed over 200 of its residents.

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