The TV station showed footage purportedly from the scene of one blast, showing large-scale damage to buildings, vast amounts of rubble strewn across the road and plumes of smoke rising.
Advertisement
The blast shattered windows in the Turkish town of Nusaybin, directly across the border, Reuters reports.
The group said 14 people died, but state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said at least 44 people were killed.
NEWS BRIEF A truck bomb claimed by ISIS has killed almost 50 people in a predominately Kurdish city in northern Syria.
Hospitals across Qamishli have put out urgent calls for the donation of all blood types in the wake of the blasts.
Kurdish fighters have been a key force in battling the fanatics in north and northeastern Syria and are the main component in the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance now seeking to push ISIL from Manbij.
Kurdish officials said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck. Most of the victims were civilians, who were lingering in the district that also houses a station for the Kurdish security forces.
ISIS has carried out a number of bombings in Qamishli, which is in Hasaka province, and in Hasaka city, the provincial capital.
The Syrian regime also remains in control of parts of Qamishli, including the intelligence headquarters and airport, as part of a tacit agreement with the Kurds.
The alleged IS statement added that the attack was to avenge the killing of men, women and children in the Islamic State-controlled city of Minbij in northern Syria.
Advertisement
The attack on Qamishli could be a reply to the US-backed Kurdish militia attacking Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in northern Syria, now staging an offensive to capture the IS-held town of Manbij, situated further to the east of Qamishli. Over the past year Kurdish forces have pushed back the extremist group on multiple fronts.
