| al-Shaitat | |
| Local Name: | الشُّعَيْطَاتُ |
| Ethnicity: | Arab |
| Location: | Upper Euphrates river basin |
| Population: | 70,000–90,000 |
| Language: | Arabic |
Al-Shaitat (Arabic: الشُّعَيْطَاتُ|aš-Šuʿayṭāt), in Standard Arabic al-Shuʿaytāt, is a Sunni Arab clan which lives in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate in eastern Syria. Its members number between 70,000 and 90,000 and it is led by Sheikh Rafaa Aakla al-Raju.[1] [2] Henry Field identified the Shaitat as a clan of the Aqaidat.[3] They were the target of the Al-Shaitat massacres committed by the Islamic State in 2014.