NickPatonWalsh

A decade of policies in the Middle East helped create them. You need to help find and fund the solution, or it will become a problem on your soil, not just the Middle East.

One night on a roof, the sheer extent of the heavy machine gun fire was pretty extraordinary - during an ISIS offensive, or counter-offensive. Hard to know which. That and kids showing us the cushion mountain they hid from bombs beneath.

yes. as safe as one can there.

The nature of ISIS means that in person you are unlikely - or ill advised - to interview them. Social media interaction and Skype are possible - and my colleagues have managed that. The Kurds did not have any ISIS prisoners at the time we were inside Kobani.

You can see some of that fighting in this video