Fighting has intensified in the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane, where Kurdish forces have been holding Islamic State at bay since September.

Footage shows Kurdish fighters in Kobane

Fighting has intensified in the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane, where Kurdish forces have been holding Islamic State at bay since September.

IS militants launched at least four suicide attacks, with reports saying at least 25 people were killed.
The first of the attacks was near the Turkish border crossing. It is thought to be the first fighting in that area.
The battle for Kobane has left hundreds of people dead and forced more than 200,000 to flee into Turkey.
The US-led coalition is supporting the town's defenders with air strikes.

Turkey has allowed some Kurdish fighters from Iraq to travel through Turkey to assist in defending Kobane.
IS controls large swathes of both Syria and neighbouring Iraq
The militants have been trying to overrun Kobane for the past two months.
In the early stages, it looked as though the town's fall was only a matter of time. But the Kurdish fighters have defended tenaciously and kept hold of roughly half the town.
They have been supported by a small number of well-armed Iraqi Kurdish fighters, some other Syrian opposition units, and of course by the coalition air strikes.

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