Al-Yaarubiyah

Al-Yaarubiyah اليعربية
Town
Al-Yaarubiyah
Coordinates: 36°48′42″N 42°3′59″E
Country	Syria
Governorate	Al-Hasakah
District	Al-Malikiyah District
Nahiyah	Al-Yaarubiyah
Population  (2004)
• Total	6,066
Time zone	UTC+3 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (EEST)

Al-Yaarubiyah (Arabic: اليعربية‎) (Kurdish: Tilkoçer‎) is a town in al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Yaarubiyah had a population of 6,066 in the 2004 census. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 62 localities with a combined population of 39,459 in 2004.

Its population are mostly Arab from the Shammar tribe. In course of the Syrian Civil War, the town initially came under the control of Jihadist rebels including the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, but was later captured by the YPG.

Border post

The town was the border post between French-Syria and British-Iraq and had a railway station on the Baghdad Railway.

Germans, Norwegians, French-Syrian colonial officials and others at the train station in Tell Kotchek, 1940.

It is twinned by Rabia on the Iraqi side of the border.