dabiq ( ) is a town in northern syria, about northeast of aleppo and around south of syria's border with turkey. it is administratively part of the akhtarin "nahiyah" (subdistrict) of the a'zaz district of aleppo governorate. nearby localities include mare' to the southwest, sawran to the northwest, and akhtarin town to the southeast. in the 2004 census, dabiq had a population of 3,364.