Al-Shaitat

al-Shaitat
الشُّعَيْطَاتُ
EthnicityArab
LocationUpper Euphrates river basin
(mainly Deir ez-Zor Governorate)
Population70,000–90,000
LanguageArabic

Al-Shaitat (Arabic: الشُّعَيْطَاتُ, romanized: aš-Šuʿayṭāt), in Standard Arabic al-Shuʿaytāt, is a Sunni Arab clan which lives in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate in eastern Syria. Its members number between 70,000 and 90,000 and it is led by Sheikh Rafaa Aakla al-Raju. Henry Field identified the Shaitat as a clan of the Aqaidat. They were the target of the Al-Shaitat massacres committed by the Islamic State in 2014.

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