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Like many people from Deir al-Zor, a conservative Sunni Muslim city on the banks of the Euphrates river, she dresses modestly and wears a headscarf, or hejab.

“I’ve been at war with the police over my hejab since I was 16,” she said.

Under the rule of militants such as the Islamic State, women were forced to wear hejab, discouraged from working, and often segregated from men.

"But they should respect their hejab."

Suleiman Hejab went to the gym with son Ali on Friday morning, but by that evening Ali lay dead in a Suez hospital.