Refusing to buckle to violent protests demanding more action, Turkey's foreign minister insisted Thursday his nation "is on Kobani's side" -- referring to the Syrian border town in imminent danger of falling to ISIS -- but still won't unilaterally send ground troops to save it. Time may be running out. Smoke rose over Kobani, a Kurdish enclave in Syria that's a stone's throw from the Turkish border, as U.S. warplanes pounded ISIS targets from above while Kurdish fighters tried to fend off the Islamist extremist group from below. But ISIS isn't backing down. It seems to have wrested control of one-third of Kobani, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based monitoring group.
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Report: 30 die amid protests; 2 police assessing protest sites also killed
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Group: ISIS controls about one-third of Kobani, a Kurdish enclave near the Turkish border
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Syrian Kurd: "The massacre is about to happen, and we have to act very ... promptly"
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Minister: Turkey will do "its part" against ISIS, but won't dispatch ground troops solo
A media activist also in the town described intense street-to-street fighting around the @placeholder security forces' headquarters, near the center of Kobani, as well as in the south of the town.