Meidan Ekbis (Arabic: ميدان اكبس) or Maydan Ikbis or Midan Akbas, is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Afrin District of Aleppo Governorate, located north of Aleppo.
The town lies on the Syria–Turkey border and is a stop on the main railroad crossing into Turkey on the Baghdad Railway and Istanbul-Aleppo-Damascus line.
According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Meidan Ekbis had a population of 1,302 in the 2004 census.
[1] By late July 2013, People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters controlled the town.
[3] In Khaled Khalifa's No Knives in the Kitchens of This City (2013), Meidan Ekibs is mentioned as the hometown of the main family, which they left to move to Aleppo, Syria.