Al-Khreibat

Al-Khreibat (, also spelled Kharibat or Khuraybat) is a village and suburb in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate, located southeast of Tartus. Nearby localities include Beit Kammun to the south, Dibbash to the southeast, Tayshur to the east, and al-Shaykh Saad to the north.

==Population== According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Khreibat had a population of 1,464 in the 2004 census. The inhabitants of the village are predominantly Maronite Christians, although there is also an Alawite minority. Together, al-Khreibat, Bimalkah, and Dweir Taha (part of al-Sawda municipality) make up the Christian suburbs of Tartus. The population grows at a steady rate, although substantially lower than the surrounding Alawite and Sunni Muslim villages. This is due to low birth rates and high levels of emigration to the cities, such as Damascus and Aleppo and abroad to places like Lebanon, France, the United States and Canada.