This a report from the Guardian newspaper:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/07/syrian-kurds-isis-militants-kobani
Here is an article in the Jerusalem Post : http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Western-fear-of-angering-Turkey-leaves-besieged-Kurdish-town-at-mercy-of-Islamic-State-378395
For some relevant background reading, here is "The Downfall of Obama's Middle East Doctrine", which appeared in the March 2014 edition of Quadrant magazine: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/03/downfall-obamas-middle-east-doctrine/
