The city fell to the Arabs in 640 , was several times destroyed and rebuild , and in medieval times fiercely embattled between several Muslim dynasties . It still remained an important site of the Syriac Orthodox Christians , until Tamerlane sacked the city at the end of the 14th century . During the Armenian Genocide , the Ottomans killed 80.000 Armenians in the infamous Ras al-Ayn camps
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Ras al-Ayn