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Islamic State threatens Kurdish workers in northeast Syria

The Islamic State is threatening to kill employees in the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor if they continue to report to their jobs.
A picture taken on October 20, 2017, shows Islamic State group writing on a wall.
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ALEPPO, Syria — Islamic State (IS) cells in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria threatened employees and workers of institutions linked to the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and warned them against carrying out work for the administration.

“On the morning of Aug. 9, the employees of the local council and the municipality in the town of al-Hariji in the northeastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor were surprised to find upon arrival at their workplace paper notes bearing the IS logo and the name and function of each employee,” an official at the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. 

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