The SDF has lifted a blockade it imposed last week on Syrian-regime held ‘security squares’ in Qamishli and Hasakah after fighting broke out in Deir al-Zour
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![Funerals were held in Qamishli for the four people killed in the Turkish drone strike [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2022-08/GettyImages-1242422536.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=P353b2T7)
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![Russia Qamishli [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/media/images/E94E8518-C9FF-4909-BFDC-B3654F5621FA.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=Om5TvS7c "Russia Qamishli [AFP]")
