Monday, 6 October, 2014 , 17:38 AFP — Islamic State jihadists penetrated the key Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border, sparking street-to-street fighting with its Kurdish defenders Monday after a three-week-long siege, a monitoring group said.

Monday, 6 October, 2014 , 17:15 AFP — Islamic State jihadists penetrated the key Syrian town of Kobane on the border with Turkey, sparking street fighting with its Kurdish defenders on Monday, a monitoring group said.

Monday, 6 October, 2014 , 16:55 AFP —

Monday, 6 October, 2014 , 16:28 AFP — The Turkish government last week won parliamentary authorisation to send its armed forces into Syria to fight jihadists but imminent action is unlikely as it sets the West tough conditions for military cooperation.

Monday, 6 October, 2014 , 15:27 AFP — Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) jihadists for the Syrian town of Kobane employed a new tactic when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in an attack claimed to have killed dozens of militants.

Monday, 6 October, 2014 , 15:13 AFP — Twin truck bombings by jihadists killed at least 30 Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters and security officers on Monday in Syria's northeastern town of Hasakeh, a monitoring group said.

Monday, 6 October, 2014 , 15:04 AFP — The new head of NATO said Monday it would protect member Turkey against attacks from the jihadist Islamic State group, which is fighting to capture territory in Iraq and Syria near the Turkish border.

Monday, 6 October, 2014 , 14:47 AFP — Twin truck bombings killed at least 30 Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters and security officers on Monday in Syria's northeastern town of Hasakeh, a monitoring group said.

Monday, 6 October, 2014 , 14:34 AFP —

Monday, 6 October, 2014 , 13:03 AFP — At least 20 jihadists from the Islamic State group were killed on Sunday night after for the first time entering the embattled Syrian border town of Kobane, a monitor said.