Abu Hamam (, Kurdish: ''Ebû Hemam'') is a

Syrian Syrians () are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, most of whom have Arabic, especially its Levantine and Mesopotamian dialects, as a mother tongue. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend ...

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located in the

Abu Kamal District Abu Kamal District () is a district of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate in northeastern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Abu Kamal. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 265,142. The Euphrates divides the district, with H ...

Deir ez-Zor Deir ez-Zor () is the largest city in eastern Syria and the seventh largest in the country. Located on the banks of the Euphrates to the northeast of the capital Damascus, Deir ez-Zor is the capital of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. In the 2018 ...

. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 21,947 during the 2004 census.

Syrian civil war

Abu Hamam was captured from the

Islamic State The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadism, Salafi jihadist organization and unrecognized quasi-state. IS ...

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(SDF) on 1 December 2017. On 3 March 2022, a fighter with the SDF was shot dead in the town by a

gunmen. On 3 June 2022, two fighters and a smuggler were killed after SDF forces launched an anti-smuggling operation in the town.

References

Populated places in Deir ez-Zor Governorate Populated places on the Euphrates River {{Syria-geo-stub