Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict () is a subdistrict of Al-Tabqah District in Raqqa Governorate (Syria), approximately west of Raqqa. The subdistrict population at the 2004 census was 31,786.
Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict is bounded by Lake Assad to the West and South, Ayn al-Arab District of Aleppo Governorate to the North, and Raqqa District also of Raqqa Governorate to the East.
The administrative centre Al-Jarniyah and much of the subdistrict are currently controlled by SDF, following three years of control by ISIS and other rebel groups.
Towns and villages
The towns and villages in Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict and their populations as at the 2004 census were: Abu Sakhra (أبو صخرة), 730 Abu Shamat - Abul Kalat (أبو الشامات_أبو الكالات), 525 Ajajiyeh (العجاجية), 284 Badiat Elshoaa (بادية الشوعة), 207 Bir Elatshaneh (بئر العطشانة), 251 Bir Elkhozam (بئر الخزام), 391 Bir Haj Khalif (بئر حاج خليف), 94 Bir Shallal (بئر شلال), 921 Bisrawi (بصراوي), 351 Dahweh (ضحوة), 122 Dukhan (دخان), 415 Eastern Jaabar (جعبر شرقي), 1180 Falah Rabu (فلاح ربو), 2638 Hamra (الحمرة), 408 Hazzum (حزوم), 275 Hurriyeh (الحرية), 810 Hweijet Halawa (حويجة حلاوة), 1651 Jeiber (جعيبر), aka Jabar, 277 Jurneyyeh (الجرنية), 2686 Kanu (الكنو), 191 Karawan (الكروان), 600 Khatuniya Eljerniyah (خاتونية الجرنية), 1852 Mahmudli (Arabic: المحمودلي, Kurdish: Mahmûdiyê), 2713 Mjeibnet Elamya (مجيبنة العمياء), 859 Msheirfet Eljerniyeh (المشيرفة الجرنية), 434 Mweileh (المويلح), 231 Nafileh (النفيلة), 554 Rajm Elhamam (رجم الحمام), 93 Ramleh (الرملة), 1395 Safra الصفرة 184 Sanjar (سنجار), 92 Shahid Ellah (شهيد الله), 592 Shams Eldin (شمس الدين), 2213 Tal Othman (تل عثمان), 2024 Tawi (طاوي), 1180 Thaheriya (الظاهرية), 424 Thlath Khrab (ثلاث خراب), 291 Wasta (الواسطة), 396 Western Jaabar (جعبر غربي), 833 Zarijiyet Shams Eldin (زريجية شمس الدين), 171 Al-Bahtah (الباهتة), 63 Al-Rahrahah (الرحراحة), 408 Al-Sakhni (السخني), 112 Al-Turkah (الطركة), 822 Mazyuneh (المزيونة), 333 Shabhar (شبهر), 129
Notable places
The castle of Qal'at Ja'bar, previously overlooking the Euphrates, but now an island in Lake Assad, lies close to Western Jaabar in the south of the subdistrict.
Syrian civil war
By March 2013 Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict, with the rest of Raqqa countryside, had fallen into rebel hands.
During December 2016 the Syrian Democratic Forces drove ISIS out of most Al-Jarniyah Subdistrict. With the help of US special forces, Bir Shallal and nearby villages in the north-east of the nahiyah were taken over in mid December, soon followed by a corridor stretching to Wasta on Lake Assad which cut off the west of the nahiyah which was subsequently taken over. The largest town of the area, Mahmudli in the south west of the nahiyah, was taken over by the SDF at the start of 2017.
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