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Turkish soldiers on a tank and Kurdish people look at the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, from a hill at the Turkish-Syrian border, in the southeastern Turkish village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on October 11, 2014. Kurdish fighters halted a thrust by Islamic State group jihadists towards the heart of the battleground Syrian town of Kobane on October 11, after the UN warned thousands of civilians risked massacre. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS