Kurdish YPG fighters are making a last stand of defence against militants form the Islamic State, who have broken Kurdish defences and entered Kobane after a three week siege.
Turkish MPs have voted to allow its military to enter Iraq and Syria and foreign troops to use its territory to combat the threat of the Islamic State.
Turkey now hosts more than a 1.5m Syrians – and many more have arrived on the back of the US/allied air strikes on ISIS
In his closing address at the UN General Assembly, British Prime Minister David Cameron made a plea to other world leaders to unite against the threat posed by the jihadi militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Senior Imams and Islamic scholars around the world have written an open letter to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi explaining that many of IS’ actions are forbidden under Islamic law and scripture.