Al-Hasakah#Civil war

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An ancient tell has been identified in the city centre by Dominique Charpin as the location of the city of Qirdahat.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6KnKOTissFQC&pg=PA41|title=Dūr-Katlimmu 2008 and Beyond|author=Hartmut Kühne|year=2010|page=41|isbn=9783447062091}} Another possibility is that it was the site of the ancient Aramean city of Magarisu, mentioned by the Assyrian king Ashur-bel-kala, who fought the Arameans near the city.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwwNS0diXP4C&pg=PA439|title=The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire|author=Trevor Bryce|year=2009|page=439|isbn=9781134159079}} The etymology of Magarisu is Aramaic (from the root mgrys) and means "pasture land".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5SyFAAAAIAAJ|title=Land tenure and social transformation in the Middle East|author=American University of Beirut|year=1984|page=5|isbn=9780815660712}} The city was the capital of the Aramean state of Bit-Yahiri, which was invaded by Assyrian kings Tukulti-Ninurta II and Ashurnasirpal II.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HLTYAAAAMAAJ|title=A Star is Rising: The Historical Development of the Old Testament Royal Ideology and the Rise of the Jewish Messianic Expectations|author=Antti Laato|year=1997|page=107|isbn=9780788504204}}

Excavations in the tell discovered materials dating to the Middle-Assyrian, Byzantine and Islamic eras. The last level of occupation ended in the fifteenth century.{{cite web|url=http://www.esyria.sy/ehasakeh/index.php?p=stories&category=ruins&filename=200909021500149|title=انهاء أعمال التنقيب في "تل الحسكة" الأثري|publisher=esyria.sy|date=2009|access-date=18 August 2015}} A period of 1,500 years separated the Middle-Assyrian and Byzantine levels.{{cite web|url=http://www.esyria.sy/ehasakeh/index.php?p=stories&category=ruins&filename=2009013020450315|title=أخيراً نطق تل "الحسكة" الأثري |publisher=esyria.sy|date=2009|access-date=18 August 2015}}

There are numerous other archaeological tells in the surrounding area, such as Tall Sulaymānī, which is 7.6 kilometers to the north of the city.

In Ottoman times, the town was insignificant.{{Cite book|last=Schmidinger|first=Thomas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=omsMMQAACAAJ|title=Krieg und Revolution in Syrisch-Kurdistan: Analysen und Stimmen aus Rojava|date=2017-03-22|publisher=Mandelbaum Verlag|isbn=978-3-85476-665-0|pages=63|language=de}} Today's settlement was established in April 1922 as a French military post, which soon grew into a town. The establishment of new cities in northern Syria was deemed necessary by the authorities of the French Mandate because after the foundation of Turkey, all major economic centers were allocated to Turkey. After the Armenian genocide and Assyrian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, many refugees fled to the area after their expulsion and began to develop it in the 1920s.

During the French mandate period, Assyrians fleeing ethnic cleansing in Iraq during the Simele massacre, established numerous villages along the Khabur River during the 1930s.{{cite journal |last1=Fernandez |first1=Alberto M. |title=Dawn at Tel Tamir: The Assyrian Christian Survival on the Khabur River |journal=Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies |date=1998 |volume=12 |issue=1 |url=http://www.jaas.org/edocs/v12n1/Fernandez.pdf}} French troops were stationed on Citadel Hill at that time. In 1942, there were 7,835 inhabitants in Al-Hasakah, several schools, two churches and a gas station.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} The new city grew from the 1950s to become the administrative centre of the region. The economic boom in the cities of Qamishli and Al-Hasakah was a result of the irrigation projects started in the 1960s, which transformed northeastern Syria into a cotton-growing area.

On 23 March 1993, a large fire broke out in the Al-Hasakah Central Prison after prisoners protested the conditions there, leaving 61 inmates dead and 90 others injured. The detainees accused the police chief and the Syrian forces of having set the fire. The government blamed five inmates, who were then executed on 24 May 1993.{{Cite web|url=https://vdc-nsy.com/archives/44999|title = بعد 28 عاماً على حريق سجن الحسكة أهالي 61 ضحية مازالوا بانتظار تحقيق العدالة|date = 25 March 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad5620.html|title = Refworld | Syria: Whether a fire was set at Hasaka prison on 24 March 1993 killing around 60 people}}

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[[File:Battle of Hasakah.svg|250px|thumb|right|Frontlines in Al-Hasakah prior to October 14, 2019 {{leftlegend|#EDC4BE|Syrian Government control}}

{{leftlegend|#F7E18E|Syrian Kurdish control}}]]On 26 January 2011, in one of the first events of the 2011 Syrian protests,{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h36T5QlbV8w |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/h36T5QlbV8w |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=أبرز محطات الثورة السورية خلال الأيام الماضية.wmv |date=24 April 2011 |work=Al Jazeera |access-date=2 November 2011 }}{{cbignore}} Hasan Ali Akleh from Al-Hasakah poured gasoline on himself and set himself on fire, in the same way Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi had in Tunis on 17 December 2010. According to eyewitnesses, the action was "a protest against the Syrian government".{{cite web|url=http://www.free-syria.com/loadarticle.php?articleid=37797 |title=Information on the death of a young man who burned himself in Al Hasakah |publisher=free-syria.com |access-date=30 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130220315/http://www.free-syria.com/loadarticle.php?articleid=37797 |archive-date=30 January 2011 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.metransparent.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=12661&lang=ar |title=Syrian suicider is "Hasan Ali Akleh". Damascus has banned a demonstration in support of Egypt |work=Middle East Transparent |access-date=30 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205211933/http://www.metransparent.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=12661&lang=ar |archive-date=2011-02-05 |url-status=dead }}{{Better source needed|date=January 2018}}

In the Battle of Hasakah of summer 2015, the Syrian Government lost control of much of the city to the Islamic State, which was then captured by the Kurdish YPG. Afterwards, some 75% of Hasakah and all of the surrounding countryside were under the administration of the Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava, while only some inner-city areas were controlled by the Syrian government.{{cite web|url=https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/07/25/Kurds-gain-ground-in-Syria-s-Hasakah-in-ISIS-fightback-.html|title=Kurds 'gain ground in Syria's Hasakah' in ISIS fightback|date=July 25, 2015|website=Al Arabiya English}}{{cite news|url=http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20140801_01200567|title=IS-extremisten rukken op in Syrië|work=Nieuwsblad|date=1 August 2014|access-date=11 August 2014|archive-date=12 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812210318/http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20140801_01200567|url-status=dead}}{{cite news | url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ar/security/2014/06/syria-hassakeh-fears-raqqa-isis.html|title=Hasakah residents fear ISIS rally in east Syria|work=al-Safir|date=24 June 2014|access-date=11 August 2014|author=Halabi, Alaa}} The United Nations estimates that violence related to the civil War has displaced up to 120,000 people.{{cite web|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-idUKKBN0P707120150628|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130040912/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-idUKKBN0P707120150628|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 30, 2016|title=Kurds secure Syria's Kobani as Islamic State targets northeast|work=Reuters|date=28 Jun 2015}} On 1 August 2016, the Syrian Democratic Council opened a public office in Al-Hasakah.{{cite web|url=http://en.hawarnews.com/inauguration-of-the-1st-msd-office/|title=Inauguration of the 1st MSD office|publisher=Hawar News Agency|date=2016-08-01|access-date=2016-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804030218/http://en.hawarnews.com/inauguration-of-the-1st-msd-office/|archive-date=2016-08-04|url-status=dead}}

On 16 August 2016, the Battle of al-Hasakah (2016) started, with the YPG and Asayish capturing most of the remaining areas held by government forces.{{cite news |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/syria-ypg-launches-assault-hasaka-160822041843880.html|title=Syria: YPG launches assault to take all of Hasaka|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=24 August 2016}} On 23 August 2016, an agreement between the YPG and the Syrian Army resulted in a ceasefire within the city.{{cite news|url=https://sana.sy/en/?p=86190|title=Agreement to halt fighting in Hasaka enforced at 14:00 p.m.|newspaper=Syrian Arab News Agency|date=August 23, 2016}} Al-Hasakah has since been part of the Jazira Region in the framework of the de facto autonomous Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava.{{cite news|url=http://syriadirect.org/news/%E2%80%98i-am-here%E2%80%99-new-census-in-northern-syria-seeks-to-document-unregistered-syrian-kurds/|title='I am here': New census in northern Syria seeks to document unregistered Syrian Kurds|publisher=Syria:direct|date=29 September 2016|access-date=11 December 2016|archive-date=16 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016205314/https://syriadirect.org/news/%E2%80%98i-am-here%E2%80%99-new-census-in-northern-syria-seeks-to-document-unregistered-syrian-kurds/|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://aranews.net/2016/10/syrian-regime-supporters-protest-rojava-federal-project-hasakah/|title=Syrian regime supporters protest against Rojavan federalism in Hasakah|publisher=ARA News|date=2 October 2016|access-date=11 December 2016|archive-date=14 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214140654/http://aranews.net/2016/10/syrian-regime-supporters-protest-rojava-federal-project-hasakah/|url-status=dead}}

On 20 January 2022, the al-Sina'a prison came under attack by Islamic State forces who attempted to free ex-IS fighters that were incarcerated inside the prison. Following the initial attack, clashes spread to the neighbourhoods of al-Zuhour and Ghuwayran as imprisoned Islamic State militants attempted to escape. After a 6-day battle, SDF and Coalition forces managed to push back the attack and secure the area. After thwarting their attack on Ghweran prison, they barricaded themselves in the Faculty of Economics building in the Syrian government-controlled areas in the city of Hasakah, targeting civilians and the movements of the internal security forces' vehicles. Accordingly, international coalition warplanes bombed the college building.{{Cite web|title=Coalition warplanes bombs building, group of ISIS cells holed up in Al-Hasakah - ANHA {{!}} HAWARNEWS {{!}} English|url=http://hawarnews.com/en/haber/coalition-warplanes-bombs-building-group-of-isis-cells-holed-up-in-al-hasakah-h28775.html|access-date=2022-01-29|website=hawarnews.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2022-01-21|title=Ghuwayran prison attack {{!}} International Coalition jets attack building ISIS holed up in Al-Hasakah • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights|url=https://www.syriahr.com/en/235578/|access-date=2022-01-29|website=The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights|language=en-US}}

The Hasakah "Security Box" was a Syrian government enclave within Al-Hasakah, established in August 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/new-deal-reached-hasakah-hmeimim-base/|title=New deal reached for Hasakah in Hmeimim Base|publisher=Al-Masdar News|date=August 23, 2016|access-date=January 12, 2017|author=Izat Charkatli|archive-date=November 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110171923/https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/new-deal-reached-hasakah-hmeimim-base/|url-status=dead}} It contained a prison, immigration office, mayor's palace, police headquarters, and local army command center.{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-kurds-idUSKCN10Y127|title=Syria Kurds win battle with government, Turkey mobilizes against them|author=Rodi Said|author2=Tom Perry|date=23 August 2016|publisher=Reuters|access-date=23 August 2016}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/middleeast/ceasefire-syria-kurds-hasaka/|title=Syrian military, Kurdish fighters reach ceasefire in Hasaka|publisher=CNN|date=August 23, 2016|access-date=January 12, 2017|author=Ralph Ellis}}

Following the capture of the city from ISIS in 2015, government forces controlled 25% of the city while the YPG controlled 75%.

On August 16, 2016, a small skirmish erupted into the Second Battle of al-Hasakah between the Asayish alongside the YPG and the Syrian government. After a week-long battle, Kurdish fighters secured control of over 95% of the city.{{cite web|url=http://aranews.net/2016/08/kurds-triumph-in-battle-against-syrian-regime/|title=Kurds triumph in battle against Syrian regime|author=Wladimir van Wilgenburg|date=August 24, 2016|publisher=ARA News|access-date=January 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010103926/http://aranews.net/2016/08/kurds-triumph-in-battle-against-syrian-regime/|archive-date=October 10, 2017|url-status=dead}} Russia mediated a ceasefire that was put into place on August 23, 2016, according to which only police officers and interior ministry forces were allowed to return to the "Security Box" to protect the government's department buildings.{{cite web|url=http://aranews.net/2016/08/hasakah-truce-reached-syrian-regime-kurds-russian-mediation/|title=Hasakah: Truce reached between Syrian regime, Kurds after Russian mediation|author=Qehreman Miste|date=August 24, 2016|publisher=ARA News|access-date=January 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021223901/http://aranews.net/2016/08/hasakah-truce-reached-syrian-regime-kurds-russian-mediation/|archive-date=October 21, 2016|url-status=dead}}

In July 2018, the Syrian Army raised the Syrian flag over the Al-Nashwa District, which was previously controlled by the YPG and the Asayish security forces in the city of Hasakah.{{cite web|url=https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-raises-flag-over-hasakah-district-formerly-controlled-by-kurdish-forces/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711092957/https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-raises-flag-over-hasakah-district-formerly-controlled-by-kurdish-forces/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 11, 2018|title=Syrian Army raises flag over Hasakah district formerly controlled by Kurdish forces|date=11 July 2018|access-date=11 July 2018|via=Al Masdar News}} However, in September through November 2019, Asayish forces were still present in al-Nashwa district and able to make arrests.{{cite web|url=https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/3136|title=SDF kidnaps dozens of orphans and hundreds of youths in eastern Syria|date=2019-09-18|website=Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor|location=Geneva, Switzerland|language=en|others=Anas al-Jarjawi|access-date=2019-11-14|quote="According to local reports, the so-called military police and the Asayish forces, the security arms of SDF, arrested hundreds of young people of the Arab tribes this week [...] at Al-Quds park, Marshou, al-Kahrabah and al-Nashwa roundabouts in al-Hasaka."}}{{cite tweet|number=1195028834766217218|date=2019-11-14|user=RojavaNetwork|title=+++Two ISIS {{as written|wom|ens [sic]}} fleeing from Al-hol camp were arrested by Asayîş internal security force in al-Nashwa neighborhood, Hasake city.}}

In January 2021, government controlled parts of Al-Hasakah and Qamishli, came under siege by the Asayish due to disputes with the Damascus government.

In March 2023, the US conducted retaliation strikes against IRCG forces in the city, after a drone attack which killed a US contractor.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}

In August 2024, the SDF imposed another week-long siege on the enclave in retaliation for cross-border attacks by tribal militias on SDF positions in Deir ez-Zor, originating from government-controlled areas. The siege was once again lifted through Russian mediation efforts.{{Cite news |last= |date=16 August 2024 |title=SDF lift siege of Syrian regime-held areas of Qamishli, Hasakah |url=https://www.newarab.com/news/sdf-lift-siege-syrian-regime-held-areas-qamishli-hasakah |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240913152510/https://www.newarab.com/news/sdf-lift-siege-syrian-regime-held-areas-qamishli-hasakah |archive-date=2024-09-13 |access-date=2025-03-09 |work=The New Arab |language=en-EN}}

{{see also|Nahiya al-Hasakah#Kawkab military base}}

The city came under full control of the Kurdish forces on December 6-7, 2024 after the fall of the Assad Regime. Ba'athist Syrian forces handed over control of the remaining territory with no resistance.{{Cite web |date=7 December 2024 |title=Iran Update, December 7, 2024 |url=https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-december-7-2024 |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Institute for the Study of War |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=6 December 2024 |title=Celebrations in Hassakeh as the SDF has taken full control over the government pockets in Hassakeh and Qamishlo |url=https://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2024/6-december-21-celebrations-in-hassakeh-as-the-sdf-has-taken |access-date=2024-12-11 |website=Liveuamap.com (Original source is Scharo Maroof on X) |language=en}}

Al-Hasakah has a Mediterranean-influenced semi-arid climate (BSh) with very hot dry summers and cool wet winters with occasional frosty nights.

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In 1939, French mandate authorities reportedAlgun, S., 2011. [https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/205821 Sectarianism in the Syrian Jazira: Community, land and violence in the memories of World War I and the French mandate (1915- 1939)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209061554/https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/205821|date=2019-12-09}}. Ph.D. Dissertation. Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands. Page 11. Accessed on 8 December 2019. the following population numbers for different ethnic/religious groups in al-Hasakah city centre:

In 1992, Al-Hasakah was described as "an Arab city with a growing Kurdish population."{{sfnp|Vanly|1992|p=116}} Christians—mostly Assyrians, plus a smaller number of Armenians—also live in the city.

In 2004, the city's population was 188,160.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} Al-Hasakah has an ethnically diverse population of Arabs, Kurds and Assyrians, with a smaller number of Armenians.{{cite news |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/kurds-assert-control-of-hasakah-the-battle-for-rojava-dispatch-3/|title=Kurds Assert Control of Hasakah: The Battle for Rojava (Dispatch 3)|publisher=VICE News|access-date=13 August 2015}}[https://news.yahoo.com/syrian-troops-regain-area-northeastern-city-134345306.html IS fighters stage surprise attack on key Syrian border town], The Associated Press, Yahoo News

There are more than forty mosques in the city, as well as at least nine church buildings, serving a large number of Christians of various rites. The Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary is the episcopal see of the non-metropolitan Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Al Hasakah-Nisibis, which depends directly on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch.

• Syriac Orthodox Cathedral of Saint George (كاتدرائية مار جرجس للسريان الأرثوذكس)
• Syriac Orthodox Church of Our Lady (كنيسة السيدة العذراء للسريان الأرثوذكس)
• Syriac Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (كنيسة سيدة الإنتقال للسريان الكاثوليك)
• Assyrian Church of Our Lady (كنيسة السيدة العذراء للآشوريين)
• Chaldean Catholic Church of Jesus the King (كنيسة يسوع الملك للكلدان الكاثوليك)
• Armenian Orthodox Church of Saint John the Baptist (كنيسة القديس مار يوحنا المعمدان للأرمن الأرثوذكس)
• Armenian Catholic Church of the Holy Family (كنيسة العائلة المقدسة للأرمن الكاثوليك)
• National Evangelical Presbyterian Church (الكنيسة الإنجيلية المشيخية الوطنية)
• Jesus The Light of the World National Evangelical Church (كنيسة الاتحاد المسيحي يسوع نور العالم)

The economy of Hasaka is based on agriculture. The Jazira region, in which the city is situated, has long been known as "breadbasket" and "green island". In 2011, the region's wheat production made up 55% of Syria's total output, with Hasakah alone contributing more than 50%. Meanwhile, the region's cotton yield made up 78% of Syria's total production during that year, with Hasakah contributing 35%.{{Cite web |date=September 2020 |title=Hasaka {{!}} European Union Agency for Asylum |url=https://euaa.europa.eu/country-guidance-syria/hasaka |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=euaa.europa.eu |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Attiya Khalaf Al-Attiya |first= |date=11 February 2025 |title=Resource-rich yet underdeveloped, Syria’s northeast could pay dividends |url=https://en.majalla.com/node/324277/business-economy/resource-rich-yet-underdeveloped-syria%E2%80%99s-northeast-could-pay-dividends |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=en.majalla.com |language=en}}

In 2011, the Al-Hasakah Governorate accounted for roughly 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Syria's output of around 380,000 bpd. The region also holds a substantial amount of natural gas reserves.

Following the Syrian civil war and in particular the Turkish occupation of Rojava many acres of farmland were rendered unusable, as Turkish forces cut off the Allouk water station in Serê Kaniyê (Raʾs al-ʿAin). This also led to a deterioration in the city's health conditions.{{Cite news |last=Sallon |first=Hélène Sallon |date=15 September 2022 |title=In Al-Hasakah, Syria, water is becoming a rare commodity |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/09/15/in-al-hasakah-syria-water-is-becoming-a-rare-commodity_5996982_4.html |access-date=2025-03-10 |work=Le Monde |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |date=9 June 2024 |title=Water crisis in Al-Hasakah - Tens of civilians, mostly children, arrive in hospitals after having consumed unpotable water |url=https://www.syriahr.com/en/335750/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Syrian Observatory For Human Rights |language=en-CA}} Additionally Abdullah Al-Fares, a professor of economics at the University of Aleppo, attributes the decline in agricultural output to prolonged droughts, decreasing rainfall, large-scale displacement of farmers, rising production costs, a reduction in irrigated farmland due to soaring fuel prices and power outages, the lack of fertilizer, and a decline in seed quality. The displacement of farmers and power outages in particular were caused by Turkish airstrikes, which severely damaged the Hasakah region's only power station. Oil extraction in the region also stalled as energy became scarce, oil tankers were targeted by ISIS sleeper cells, and roads and infrastructure were damaged by Turkish airstrikes.{{Cite web |last= |date=14 November 2024 |title=ISIS sleeper cells kill oil tanker driver in Syria's Hasakah |url=https://npasyria.com/en/118417/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=North Press Agency |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Enab |first=Baladi |date=25 October 2024 |title=Turkey continues its escalation in northeastern Syria |url=https://english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2024/10/turkey-continues-its-escalation-in-northeastern-syria/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Enab Baladi |language=en-US}}

Over the years various projects have been undertaken by the Autonomous Administration’s Economic Authority and the Kongreya Star to improve the city's economic standing and promote women's empowerment. These include agricultural projects for displaced women from Serê Kaniyê, the Centre for Co-operative Societies, which cultivates barley in the region, the Ishtar Women’s Bakery, Demsal (lit. Season), which offers seasonal products, as well as numerous sewing and textile workshops, canned food factories, dairy farms, restaurants, and clothing shops.{{Cite web |last=HACî |first=RONÎDA |date=18 October 2024 |title=Demsal Cooperative promotes women’s economic empowerment in Hasakah |url=https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/demsal-cooperative-promotes-women-s-economic-empowerment-in-hasakah-35849 |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=JINHAGENCY News |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=8 November 2020 |title=Explainer: Co-operatives in North and East Syria – developing a new economy |url=https://mesopotamia.coop/cooperatives-in-north-and-east-syria-developing-a-new-economy/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Co-operation in Mesopotamia |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Ramadan |first=Delal |date=6 June 2023 |title=Women's Economy Committee promotes women’s economic empowerment |url=https://jinhaagency.com/en/labor-economy/women-s-economy-committee-promotes-women-s-economic-empowerment-33392 |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=JINHAGENCY News |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=15 October 2018 |title=Important projects for women’s economy |url=https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-northern-syria/important-projects-for-women-s-economy-30204 |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=ANF News |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |date=10 December 2018 |title=مركز التعاونيات يباشر بزراعة الأراضي بالحسكة |url=https://ronahi.net/?p=19181 |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=Ronahi |language=ar}}{{Cite web |date=1 January 2021 |title=Agricultural projects for displaced women from Serêkaniyê |url=https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/agricultural-projects-for-displaced-women-from-serekaniye-49048 |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=ANF News |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-09-30 |title=Serving over 11 villages - Al-Hasakah governor inaugurates new bread bakery with a capacity of 14 tons of bread a day |url=https://www.syriahr.com/en/269695/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights |language=en-CA}}

The city of Al-Hasakah is divided into 5 districts, which are Al-Madinah, Al-Aziziyah, Ghuwayran, Al-Nasra and Al-Nashwa. These districts, in turn, are divided into 29 neighborhoods.[http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB08-1-2004.htm Al-Hasakah subdistrict population 2004 census] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408075107/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB08-1-2004.htm |date=2013-04-08 }}

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Al-Jazeera SC Hasakah is the largest football club in the city and plays at Bassel al-Assad Stadium.

File:St George cathedral - Hassaké, Syria - كاتدرائية مار جرجس.jpg|Saint George Syriac Orthodox Cathedral

File:Chaldean Catholic Church, Al-Hasakah, Syria.jpg|Chaldean Catholic Church

File:Tal hajar Quarter in AL-Hasakah.JPG|Tell Hajjar neighborhood

• Hammouda Sabbagh, politician
• Ignatius Joseph III Yonan; the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch
• seid gabari; kurdish music artist

• Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Al Hasakah-Nisibis

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