US-led coalition air strikes against Islamic State fighters have failed to stop the militant advance on the Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane.
Reports say an IS flag is now flying outside the city centre where Kurdish forces have been engaged in fierce fighting with the well-armed jihadists.
Reporter Hannah Lucinda Smith of "The Times" newspaper in Britain is on the Turkey/Iraq border.
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