Turkish fighter jets carried out air-strikes on supposed PKK positions near the Iraqi border, with Ankara claiming Kurdish militants attacked a military base in the area.
The Anbar Tribal Council warns that the western Iraqi governorate is 80% under control of ISIS, and remaining tribal fighters could be routed without urgent intervention.
With desperate street-to-street fighting underway in Kobani between ISIS and Kurdish militia, nearly 30 have been killed in Kurdish protests across Turkey.
As ISIS forces penetrated Kobani, Kurds across Turkey took to the streets in angry protests at Ankara's inaction, leaving several dead in street clashes.
As the PKK continues its desperate resistance against ISIS at Kobani, Turkish troops gather on the nearby border—to prevent Kurdish fighters from coming to the town's aid.
A group of local Kurdish Americans gathered in New York's Union Square to show their support for Kobani, the Kurdish town in northern Syria now besieged by ISIS.
The Turkish government submitted a motion to parliament to expand authorization for military action in Syria. Over 160,000 refugees have fled ISIS into Turkey in recent weeks.
Turkish troops opened fire on Kurdish refugees attempting to flee the tightening ISIS siege of Kobani in northern Syria, as ISIS forces advanced within 40 kilometers of Baghdad.
Warplanes flying from the USS George HW Bush carried out the first US air-strikes against ISIS targets in Syria, with planes from five Arab countries also participating in the raids.
Turkish security forces fired water cannon and tear-gas to prevent local Kurds from crossing into Syria to come to the defense of ISIS-beseiged Kobani.
Thousands of Yazidi refugees who have fled the Sinjar region of northern Iraq have been denied entry into Turkey by military forces, and are stranded in the mountains.
Tens of thousands joined the funeral for a youth killed by Turkish troops who attacked local Kurds trying to protect a statue of PKK guerrilla leader Mahsum Korkmaz near Diyarbakır.
