Syrian state TV said one blast was from a vehicle bomb and the other from a bomb on a motorbike, saying 31 people had died.
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The Syrian state television reports at least, 171 people have been injured in the attack claimed by ISIS, yet the numbers may rise.
“The number keeps increasing as lots of victims are still buried under the debris”.
He was gripping the arm of a small boy whose face was grey and red with blood and dust.
They ran past a hysterical woman who was crying and screaming, her clothes torn. A girl and boy stood next to her, apparently in shock.
In a statement published by the IS-linked Aamaq news agency, the group said it carried out the attack in Qamishli, describing it as a truck bombing that struck a complex of Kurdish offices.
The attack targeted Kurdish security forces in a heavily guarded administrative part of the city.
The targeted area is the residential area of several ministries of the local autonomous Kurdish administration.
Syrians carry a victim after twin bombings struck Kurdish town of Qamishli, Syria. In retaliation ISIS has bombed the area repeatedly, most recently in April, killing six members of the Kurdish internal security force; as well as in July, when a suicide bomb killed 16.
A suicide bomber detonated a truck of explosives in northeastern Syria Wednesday morning, killing at least 44 people.
State TV showed scenes which it said were the aftermath of the bombing, with pictures of destruction over a large area and plumes of smoke rising into the air.
Qamishli, near the Turkish border, is mainly controlled by Kurds, but Syrian government forces are present and control the local airport. Two people were slightly hurt in Nusaybin, said one witness.
The assault against Islamic State in the city of Manbij has put it under pressure, cutting off all routes out of the city.
The YPG, considered the best fighting force against IS, is the dominate force in the US-backed Syrian Defense Forces (SDF).
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The Syrian Kurds, numbering about two million or 10 per cent of the population, were a marginalised and persecuted minority up to 2011, when they threw off Syrian government control, only to find themselves under attack from the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, the Nusra Front, and later Isis.
