Baath Dam

'Ba'ath Dam', Kurdish: Bendava Baas, Classical Syriac: ܣܟܪܐ ܕܒܥܬ, romanized: Sekro d'Ba'ath) is a dam on the Euphrates, located 22 kilometres (14 mi) upstream from the city of Raqqa in Raqqa Governorate, Syria.

[1] The Baath Dam is 14 metres (46 ft) high and the installed water turbines can generate 81 MW.

The storage capacity of the Baath Dam Reservoir is 0.09 cubic kilometres (0.022 cu mi).

[6][7] The Baath Dam was captured from the ISIL by the Syrian Democratic Forces on 4 June 2017.

Upon doing so, they renamed it the "Freedom Dam" (Kurdish: Bendava Azadî; Arabic: سد الحرية; Classical Syriac: ܣܟܪܐ ܕܚܐܪܘܬܐ, romanized: Sekro d'Ḥirutho).