[5] Yaqut al-Hamawi visited the town in 1226, during Ayyubid rule, and described it as "a village in the Ghautah of Damascus, in the Iklim (District) of Da'iyyah."

[6] The Ottoman Empire annexed Syria including Kafr Batna in the early 16th-century and continued to rule until 1918.

[8] During the Ottoman period, a Sheikh Muhammad ibn Isa al-Qari' endowed a share of his vineyards in the town which was supervised by members of his family.

[9] Some of Kafr Batna's inhabitants have participated on the side of the opposition during the Syrian uprising against the government in Syria.

Although it has not been verified, opposition activists reported that five FSA soldiers and 14 civilians,[10] including at least one minor,[2] were killed during the raid.