Monday, 22 September, 2014 , 15:35 AFP — Kurdish militia fought to defend a key border town in northern Syria on Monday after 130,000 terrified residents fled to Turkey to escape an advance by Islamic State fighters.

Monday, 22 September, 2014 , 14:51 AFP — Osmane Sero has been at it since dawn, pacing back and forth in front of a line of Turkish police by the border with Syria.

Monday, 22 September, 2014 , 11:51 AFP — Turkey said Monday that some 130,000 people had flooded across its border from Syria as Kurdish fighters battled Islamic State group jihadists trying to capture a strategic town.

Monday, 22 September, 2014 , 10:23 AFP — More than 130,000 Syrian Kurds have fled across the border into Turkey, escaping an advance by Islamic State jihadists, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday.

Monday, 22 September, 2014 , 09:27 AFP — More than 130,000 Syrian Kurds have fled across the border into Turkey, escaping an advance by Islamic State jihadists, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday.

Monday, 22 September, 2014 , 08:21 AFP — More than 130,000 Syrian Kurds have fled across the border into Turkey, escaping an advance by Islamic State jihadists, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday.

Monday, 22 September, 2014 , 07:50 AFP — More than 130,000 Syrian Kurds have fled across the border into Turkey, escaping an advance by Islamic State jihadists, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday.

Monday, 22 September, 2014 , 07:41 AFP —

Monday, 22 September, 2014 , 07:29 AFP — More than 100,000 Syrian Kurds have fled into Turkey over the past few days, escaping advancing Islamic State jihadists who seized dozens of villages near a strategic border town, officials said Monday.

Monday, 22 September, 2014 , 06:42 AFP — Turkey's PKK Kurdish rebel group on Monday called on fellow Kurds to cross into Syria and combat Islamic State jihadists besieging a town near the border, the pro-Kurdish agency Firat reported.