Kobane

Syrian-Kurdish community lays family to rest in silence in short ceremony.

1,000 children are now enrolled in schools, but teachers say they draw pictures of fighting and beheadings.

Kobane's top official calls on international community to aid clean-up mission.

Groups from Suruc, a border town overlooking Kobani, and nearby villages gathered to cross the border and celebrate alongside Kurdish fighters earlier in the day, but police stopped them.

Kurdish forces drove out Islamic State fighters from the town that had become a focal point in the fight against ISIS.

According to an observer group, the Kurds have taken back 80% of the town of Kobane

A former member of Islamic State recounts travelling through Turkey in an ISIS convoy to attack Kurdish forces as the Turkish army turned a blind eye

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga are on their way to help fellow Kurds defend Kobane in a battle that has assumed huge significance in the fight against Islamic State

Iraqi peshmerga fighters headed for the Syrian town of Kobane to help fellow Kurds repel an Islamic State advance after finally getting the go ahead from Ankara

Twenty-six other bundles of supplies were dropped to Kurds in the besieged city and reached their targets, the Pentagon said.

Tensions high as Kurds accuse Erdogan’s government of wilful obstruction in the defence of Kobane and even supporting ISIS

"The constant pressure from the air and ... the pressure from the ground by these Kurdish forces has done a lot to keep ISIL at bay from taking the whole town," said Rear Admiral John Kirby

The Turkish foreign minister said that they would help 'peshmerga' fighters reach Kobane, which is under heavy attack from ISIS

Protesters hold mock auction of captive women in front of Houses of Parliament and Downing Street

A collection of photos from inside Kobane, the city on the Syrian-Turkish border under siege by ISIS by Kurdish photographer Veysi Altay

The UN secretary general's envoy to Syria compared the threat facing Kobane to human rights catastrophes in Srebrenica and Rwanda in a special press conference in Geneva