Khabab (Arabic: خبب‎, Syriac: ܟܚܐܒܐܒ, Khababb) is a town located in southern Syria in the Hauran plain, part of the Daraa Governorate, 57 km (~36 miles) south of Damascus and about the same distance from the city of Daraa.The old name of the town is Abiba in the old Syrian languages Aramaic, Syriac, (Assyrian), it means a plain green grass.