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Human Rights Watch said IS militants abducted a group of children in May

Group says IS tortured Syrian child hostages

Islamic State militants in Syria forced children as young as 14 to watch videos of beheadings and beat them with cables during six months of captivity, Human Rights Watch said.

News • 04 Nov 14

Britons have been warned of revenge attacks by the Islamic State group

UK travellers warned of terrorist threat

Britons travelling abroad are being warned that they could be targeted by terrorists seeking revenge for UK air strikes against the Islamic State group.

News • 01 Nov 14

Turkish Kurds celebrate as Peshmerga fighters cross through the Turkish-Iraqi border

US warplanes renew air strikes on IS near Kobane

US warplanes renewed air strikes against Islamic State militants near the Syrian town of Kobane as Iraqi peshmerga soldiers prepare to reinforce their fellow Kurds in the border area, according to US military sources.

News • 29 Oct 14

Local residents watch smoke from an explosion rising over the Syrian city of Kobane

US air strikes kill 553 in Syria - report

Air strikes by the US-led coalition in Syria have killed 553 people since their launch a month ago, the vast majority of them jihadists, a monitoring group said this morning.

News • 23 Oct 14

Tayyip Erdogan said US weapons had fallen into the hands of PYD and IS militants

US military aid to Kurdish fighters 'wrong'

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticised as "wrong" the airdrops of ammunition and weapons by US jets to Kurdish fighters battling jihadists in the Syrian town of Kobane.

News • 22 Oct 14

Kobane's Kurdish defenders have been under IS assault for more than a month

EU expands Syria sanctions list

The EU has agreed to expand sanctions against Syria, adding 16 names and two entities to the blacklist for their role in a "brutal war" against their own people as IS fighters advance across Kobane.

News • 20 Oct 14

Kurdish people react as they watch smoke billowing from Kobane, as they gather upon a hill overlooking the town

'Several hundred' IS fighters killed - Pentagon

The US military believes it has killed several hundred Islamic State fighters in air strikes in and around the Syrian town of Kobane, a Pentagon spokesman said.

News • 15 Oct 14

Kurdish defenders in Kobane are trying to halt an advance by IS fighters

Turkish official denies US deal on air base use

A Turkish official has denied agreement on allowing the United States to use Turkish bases for air strikes against the Islamic State group.

News • 13 Oct 14

A boy walks past tents at a Syrian Kurdish refugee camp in the Turkish town of Suruc

€3.9m aid announced for Kobane refugees

The European Commission will give €3.9m in aid to humanitarian groups helping refugees from the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane, a statement said this afternoon.

News • 12 Oct 14

People watch from Turkey as smoke rises over Kobane after an apparent air strike

Kurdish fighters block IS advance on Kobane

Kurdish fighters thwarted a bid by Islamic State group jihadists to advance into the centre of the battleground Syrian town of Kobane early this morning, according to a monitoring group.

News • 11 Oct 14

Smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobane

IS fighters capture Kurd HQ in Kobane - monitors

Militants of the Islamic State group have advanced deeper into the Syrian town of Kobane on the Turkish border.

News • 10 Oct 14

People watch smoke rising from the Syrian town of Kobane after an air strike

IS 'controls a third of Kobane' - monitor

The self-proclaimed Islamic State group controls more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobane, a monitoring group said, after three weeks of fighting Kurdish forces backed by US-led air strikes.

News • 09 Oct 14