Kurdish Fighters Hold Off Islamic State Advance at Kobani

Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, seen from near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Oct. 12, 2014.

Armed men, presumed by local sources to be Islamic State fighters, are pictured at a checkpoint in the west of Syrian town of Kobani, seen from near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Oct. 13, 2014.

Turkish soldiers hold their positions with their tanks on a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, overlooking Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, Oct. 12, 2014.

Turkish Kurds wait to look through a press photographer's camera and telephoto lens to get a view of Kobani, Syria across the border, where Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group have been fighting, at a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014.

Smoke rises after a strike on the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobani by the Kurds, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border, in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on Oct. 12, 2014.

Thick smoke rises following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Kobani, Syria as fighting intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from Mursitpinar in the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014.

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Thick smoke, debris and fire rise following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria as fighting intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from Mursitpinar on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014.

People on a hilltop watch smoke rising from a fire caused by a strike in Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Oct. 11, 2014.

Syrian Kurdish refugees who fled Kobani, go about at a refugee camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, Oct. 11, 2014.

A Kurdish refugee girl from the Syrian town of Kobani washes in front of their family tent in a camp near the Syria-Turkey border in the southeastern town of Suruc, Turkey, Oct. 10, 2014.