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STORY: Smoke from fresh explosions hovered above the skyline of the besieged Syrian-Turkey border town of Kobani on Saturday (November 8).
The latest blasts follow a relatively calm day on Friday (November 7) in the area, where Islamic State militants and Kurdish fighters have been clashing over the strategic Syrian town.
Kobani has been encircled by the Sunni Muslim insurgents for more than 40 days. Weeks of U.S.-led air strikes have failed to break their stranglehold.
Iraqi Kurdish forces have blunted but not broken the siege of Kobani, a week after arriving to great fanfare with heavy weapons and fighters in a bid to save it from Islamic State.
Kobani has become a test of the U.S.-led coalition's ability to halt the advance of the Sunni Muslim insurgents. The town is one of few areas in Syria where it can co-ordinate air strikes with operations by an effective ground force.
The arrival of the Iraqi Kurd peshmerga,
