Al-Ushayib () is a village situated in the Shahba District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Ushayib had a population of 1,262 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Suwayda Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslim Bedouins.
Bedouin villages near al-Ushayib: Shinwan, al-Asfar, al-Muftara, as-Saqiyah, Banat Baeir, Siret Alya, Tall Ushayib, Rajm Dawlah, al-Qasr, Haytalah, Abu Harat and Khirbet Umm Atayiq.
The Bedouin villages were formerly strongholds of the Islamic State in the Suwayda Governorate.
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