This market street was completely destroyed.
Sheets are hung to block the vision of snipers.
The jihadists are said to be launching between 10 and 200 mortars a day.
The ruined buildings are littered with the debris of abandoned lives.
YPJ fighters on the eastern front.
Tens of thousands of civilians have fled to the nearby Turkish border.
YPG and YPJ fighters at a position 150 feet away from Islamic State fighters.
Commander Bilnk says the YPG could clear Kobane with more coordinated air support.
YPG and YPJ fighters pose for a photograph before going out on patrol.
Bodies of Islamic State fighters lie around a position leveled in an airstrike.
Zozan and Avashin were students before joining the fight against the jihadists.
A YPG fighter moves through a hole in a bombed out building.
YPG fighters pick their way through a courtyard.
A Kurdish journalist runs through an open space, ducking to avoid sniper fire.
A YPG fighter on patrol.
This YPG fighter said his brother was martyred in the fight against the Islamic State.