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Islamic State says frees prisoners in Syrian city of Hasaka

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State said on Friday it had freed prisoners held at a jail in the city of Hasaka that it is fighting to seize from government forces. "The detainees in the central prison have been freed," the ultra-hardline jihadist group said on an official Twitter feed. (Reporting by Ali Abdelatti in Cairo; Editing by Mark Heinrich)