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Village in Deir ez-Zor, Syria
Hatla
(
Arabic
:
????
,
romanized
:
Hatlah
) is a district of city
Deir ez-Zor
located along the
Euphrates River
, southeast of
Deir ez-Zor
.
Syrian Civil War
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On 11 June 2013, a massacre was conducted by
Syrian opposition
fighters in the village. According to a UN report, 30 people were killed.
[1]
On 12 April 2017, the
Syrian Army
claimed
chemical weapons
stored by
ISIL
in Hatla were bombed by the
American-led intervention in Syria
. The American army denied that any air strikes were carried out in that area at that time. The Syrian army claimed that hundreds of deaths from poison gas exposure occurred. There has been no independent confirmation of the attack.
[2]
On 27 September 2017, the
Syrian Army
recaptured the village of Hatla from
ISIL
.
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