Photo 1 / 6 Smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobani as Turkish Kurds watch near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc, Turkey, October 9, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Photo 2 / 6 A black flag belonging to the Islamic State is seen in the Syrian town of Kobani, as pictured from the Turkish-Syrian border near the southeastern town of Suruc October 9, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Photo 3 / 6 Kurdish protesters throw stones at Turkish soldiers on an armoured vehicle trying to disperse them during a protest demanding that the Turkish government do more to help Kobani, in the northeast Syrian Kurdish city of Qamishli bordering the Turkish town of Nusaybin October 9, 2014. REUTERS/Dyar Hasso
Photo 4 / 6 A Turkish soldier sits on top of a tank, with the Syrian town of Kobani in the background, as seen from the southeastern town of Suruc close to the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border October 10, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Photo 5 / 6 Kurdish peshmerga fighters fire a mortar during clashes with Islamic State militants in the al-Zerga area near Tikrit city, in Salahuddin province, Iraq, October 8, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer
Photo 6 / 6 Foad, the brother of 15 year-old Nora who left her home in Avignon for Syria nine months ago, shows a portrait he took last September on his cell phone as he attends an interview with Reuters in Paris, October 6, 2014. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
