Gharanij () is a

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located in

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 (CBS), Gharanij had a population of 23,009 in the 2004 census. On 9 December 2017, Gharanij was captured by

Syrian Democratic Forces The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is a Kurds in Syria, Kurdish-led coalition of U.S.-backed Left-wing politics, left-wing ethnic militias and rebel groups, and serves as the official military wing of the Democratic Autonomous Administration ...

in their Deir ez-Zor campaign against 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 ...

. On 21 December 2017, the

recaptured the town but it was once again liberated by the Syrian Democratic Forces in late February.

References

{{Deir ez-Zor Governorate, abu Populated places in Deir ez-Zor Governorate Populated places on the Euphrates River