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Smoke rises from the Syrian border town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, as seen from the Turkish border town of Suruc, in Sanliurfa province, on November 3, 2014. Islamic State militants fired mortar shells against Kurdish fighters, who have been holding off for nearly seven weeks an IS offensive on the Syrian border town of Kobane and have been reinforced by about 150 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters with heavy weapons. Kobane has become both a key symbol of resistance to the IS advance and a rallying point for the jihadist cause. AFP PHOTO/STRINGER