Saturday, 4 October, 2014 , 07:37 AFP — A US-led coalition has carried out new air strikes against jihadists from the Islamic State group outside a key Syrian Kurdish border town, activists and a monitor said Saturday.

Saturday, 4 October, 2014 , 03:51 AFP — Islamic State jihadists mounted brutal offensives on both the Syrian battlefield and in their online propaganda war Friday, murdering a British hostage and attempting to storm a key border town.

Saturday, 4 October, 2014 , 01:42 AFP — The United States is facing the limits of air power in the Syria border town of Kobane, where Islamic State jihadists are steadily closing in on Kurdish fighters despite a series of US bombing raids.

Friday, 3 October, 2014 , 22:36 AFP — Islamic State jihadists mounted brutal offensives on both the Syrian battlefield and in their online propaganda war Friday, murdering a British hostage and attempting to storm a key border town.

Friday, 3 October, 2014 , 19:37 AFP — Kurdish fighters mounted a desperate defence Friday of a Syrian border town besieged by Islamic State group jihadists as President Bashar al-Assad's regime warned neighbouring Turkey against intervening on its soil.

Friday, 3 October, 2014 , 17:26 AFP — Kurdish fighters mounted a desperate defence Friday of a Syrian border town besieged by Islamic State group jihadists as President Bashar al-Assad's regime warned neighbouring Turkey against intervening on its soil.

Friday, 3 October, 2014 , 16:59 AFP — Turkey will do whatever it can to prevent the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane falling to jihadists, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said after the Turkish parliament gave the green light for military action.

Friday, 3 October, 2014 , 15:30 AFP — Kurdish fighters mounted a desperate defence Friday of a Syrian border town besieged by Islamic State group jihadists as President Bashar al-Assad's regime warned neighbouring Turkey against intervening on its soil.

Friday, 3 October, 2014 , 15:27 AFP — Turkey will do whatever it can to prevent the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane falling to jihadists, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said after the Turkish parliament gave the green light for military action.

Friday, 3 October, 2014 , 13:28 AFP — White smoke billows over the town of Kobane in Syria and the crash of mortar shells is clearly audible -- the intensity of the battle for the Kurdish town is tangible from the Turkish side of the border.