Premier of #Kobane: 'we stopped ISIS advance. They control btwn 15 -25% of city. We control rest. We need RPG's to destroy ISIS tanks\ APCs'

— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) October 9, 2014

Centcom: 5 airstrikes south of Kobane today. Kurdish militia control "most" of city & are "holding out " against IS (corrects earlier tweet)

— Quentin Sommerville (@sommervillebbc) October 9, 2014

Stephanie Hegarty, BBC News: We’re standing on a hill in Mursitpinar, Turkey, overlooking Kobane. The east of the city is shrouded in smoke.

We’ve heard reports that IS are setting fire to buildings to create a screen from the aeroplanes we hear almost constantly overhead. Those planes continue to strike to the west of the city.

Towers of black smoke have been burning for the past few hours on the top of Mistanour hill, which is under IS control.

Our Kurdish sources inside Kobane tell us that the Syrian Kurdish YPG have advanced in the east and that a group of Free Syrian Army fighters moved behind IS lines causing heavy losses. But the big black IS flag still flies on a small hill and a building in the far east of Kobane.