The Al-Shaitat massacres were committed by the Islamic State, beginning on October 17, 2014, against members of the Al-Shaitat clan of the Al-Uqaydat...

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...

President Bashar al-Assad's forces and an amalgam of rebel groups. In 2014 ISIL militants massacred an estimated 900 members of the Al-Shaitat tribe in the...

"essentially a subsidiary of the Kurdish YPG". At the end of October, the al-Shaitat tribal militia, the Desert Hawks Brigade, joined the SDF to fight ISIL...

and is based in southeastern Syria. Many of the group's fighters are al-Shaitat tribesmen from the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. The group was also active...

Omar al-Jamal (Arabic: صدام الجمل; born 1987) is a Syrian jihadist militant. He is known for taking part in the 2014 massacres of the Al-Shaitat tribe...

units of al-Baggara and al-Shaitat tribal fighters stationed in the eastern Raqqa and southern Hasaka countrysides, including the Gathering of al-Baggara...

Al-Daham Al-dandal Al-Damim clan and their sheikh is Kamal Al-Naji Al-Jirah Al-Daleej clan Al-Marashda clan Al-Jaalkah clan Abu Zamil (al-Shaitat) al-Khanfour...

Battalion". In August 2014, Abu Jandal helped to brutally suppress the Al-Shaitat tribal rebellion, and around September of that year, he fought in Deir...

of four towns which had a collective population of 97,970 in 2004. The al-Shaitat tribe is the largest tribe in the area. The town was captured by the Syrian...