TOPSHOTS Two members of the YPK, the Kurdish force known as the People's Protection Units Kurdish fighters, walk along a street in a western district of the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, in Sanliurfa province, on October 13, 2014. Kurdish fighters engaged in fierce clashes with jihadists on the Turkish border near Kobane, as Washington pressed Ankara to play a stronger role in the campaign against the Islamic State group. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS