Kurdish defenders held off Islamic State militants in Syria's border town of Kobani on Sunday, but the fighters struck with deadly bombings in Iraq, killing dozens of Kurds in the north and assassinating a provincial police commander in the west.
Kurdish Fighters Hold Off Islamic State Advance at Kobani
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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.
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Syrian Kurdish refugees who fled Kobani, go about at a refugee camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, Oct. 11, 2014.
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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.