Al- Bab
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Bab, Al-
a city in the muhafiza of Aleppo, Syria. Population, 21,400 (1970). Linked by highway with the city of Aleppo, al-Bab is the commercial center of an agricultural region in which grains and cotton are cultivated and sheep are raised. Crafts that are practiced in the city include the production of fabrics and carpets.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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A security source told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA/ that two members of the IS organization were killed in a clash with an armed group in
al- Bab al-Jadeed area south of Mosul.
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