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TOPSHOT - Smoke rises following an air strike on the western sector of the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border, in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, on October 8, 2014. Jihadists from the Islamic State group withdrew from some parts of the embattled Syrian town of Kobane overnight after air strikes by a US-led coalition, a monitor said. IS began its advance on Kobane, Syria's third biggest Kurdish town, on September 16, quickly sweeping through the surrounding countryside and prompting an estimated 186,000 people to flee the region across the border into Turkey. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)