Khattab (Arabic: خطاب, also spelled Khutab or Khattab) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, northwest of Hama located near the Orontes River River.

Nearby localities include Qamhana to the east, Shihat Hama to the southeast, Kafr al-Tun to the southwest, al-Majdal to the west, Mhardeh and Halfaya to the northwest and Taybat al-Imam to the northeast.

[3] In late 1829, during the Ottoman era, Khitab was part of the Hama Sanjak.

[5] In the 1930s, during French Mandatory rule, about two-thirds of Khitab's lands were mortgaged from the al-Azm family, the rest mortgaged from the Kaylani family; both were part of the urban landowning elites of Hama.

[6] During the Syrian Civil War, many men from the town were recruited into the regime's Tarmeh Regiment.