| Al-Dirbasiyah | |
| Native Name: | Arabic: ٱلدَّرْبَاسِيَّة |
| Other Name: | Kurdish: دربێسی|Dirbêsiyê |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Parts Type: | Control |
| Parts Style: | para |
| P1: | Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
| Pushpin Map: | Syria |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Syria |
| Coordinates: | 37.0728°N 40.6519°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | al-Hasakah |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Ras al-Ayn |
| Subdivision Type3: | Subdistrict |
| Subdivision Name3: | al-Darbasiyah |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Elevation M: | 300 |
| Population Total: | 8551 |
| Population As Of: | 2004 census |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | +3 |
| Area Code: | 52 |
Al-Dirbasiyah (Arabic: ٱلدَّرْبَاسِيَّة|ad-Dirbāsīyah, Kurdish: دربێسی|Dirbêsiyê) is a Syrian town on the Syria–Turkey border opposite the Turkish town of Şenyurt. Administratively it is part of the Al-Hasakah Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Dirbasiyah had a population of 8,551 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 113 localities with a combined population of 55,614 in 2004.[1] The majority of the inhabitants of the town are Kurds and Arabs and a smaller Assyrian minority.[2]
It is connected by road to Tell Beydar in the south.
On 22 July 2012, during the Syrian Civil War, Kurdish-led YPG forces took control over the town, after Syrian government forces, following an ultimatum issued by the YPG, withdrew from it. The town was thus brought into the AANES.[3] [4] The Syrian Army entered the town in October 2019, as part of the Second Northern Syria Buffer Zone Agreement.[5]
On 16 July 2020, an unknown UAV suspected to be Turkish carried out a strike against a Russian coordination point south of al-Dirbasiyah.[6] Two Russian soldiers, one SAA member and two members of the Asayish were injured in the strike.[7]