Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 , 20:57 AFP — President Barack Obama on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the plight of the Syrian town of Kobane under attack by Islamic State jihadists, and said a US-led coalition would keep up bombing raids there and in western Iraq.

Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 , 20:37 AFP — President Barack Obama on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the plight of the Syrian town of Kobane under attack by Islamic State jihadists and said a US-led coalition would keep up bombing raids there and in western Iraq.

Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 , 16:29 AFP — US-led aircraft hammered Islamic State jihadists with 21 bombing raids near Kobane on Monday and Tuesday amid signs the strikes had "slowed" the group's advance on the Syrian border town, the American military said.

Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 , 16:20 AFP — Scores of Kurds from the besieged Syrian town of Kobane are still on hunger strike after being detained by Turkey in a border town when they fled the advance of jihadists, an MP said on Wednesday.

Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 , 16:02 AFP — US-led aircraft hammered Islamic State jihadists with 21 bombing raids near Kobane on Monday and Tuesday amid signs the strikes had "slowed" the group's advance on the Syrian border town, the American military said.

Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 , 15:37 AFP — US-led aircraft hammered Islamic State jihadists with 21 bombing raids near Kobane on Monday and Tuesday and there were signs the strikes had "slowed" the group's advance on the Syrian border town, the American military said.

Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 , 15:11 AFP — Turkish jets have bombed Kurdish rebel targets in the southeast of the country in the first such strikes against the separatists since an increasingly fragile 2013 ceasefire, officials said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 , 12:09 AFP — Military commanders from the United States and its allies will hold talks Tuesday on the fight against jihadists in Syria and Iraq, after air strikes failed to stop their advance.

Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 , 11:53 AFP — Few people had ever heard of Kobane before recent weeks, but the once-sleepy Syrian border town has become a crucial symbolic battleground in the fight against Islamic State jihadists.

Tuesday, 14 October, 2014 , 11:40 AFP — Turkey on Tuesday accused the main Kurdish political party in Syria of "torturing" Syrian Kurds who fled to Turkey when Islamic State jihadists launched their assault on the border town of Kobane.