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Al Qamishli
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Qamishli, Al 

a city in northern Syria, near the border with Turkey. Population, 31, 100 (1967). It is a terminus of the Latakia-Aleppo-Al-Qamishli railroad line, which was under construction in 1972 with the assistance of the USSR. It is the center of an agricultural and petroleum-extraction region. The city has a steam power plant.



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Mohammed was arrested earlier this week in the northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli, it said.
I entered Qamishli three days ago from Damascus in a half-broken-down car.
The violence began in the predominantly Kurdish town of Qamishli - in the oil-rich al-Jazeera region bordering with Iraq and Turkey - before a football match between a Syrian Arab team, al-Fatwa, and a mostly Kurdish team, al-Jihad.
 
 
 
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