MURSITPIRAN - Kurdish and Iraqi forces fought to hold back advancing jihadists on the Syria-Turkey border and near Baghdad on Oct. 15 as Washington pushed to rally its allies against the Islamic State group.
Agence France-Presse: Battles rage to hold back Islamic State as Obama consults leaders
Smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition acsends in the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, as it seen from the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, in Sanliurfa province, on Oct. 13, 2014.
