In the past couple of weeks, a lot of our focus has been honed on the north Syrian city of Kobane. It's a Kurdish stronghold and on Wednesday Iraqi Kurdish forces were given permission to travel to the front lines in Kobane via Turkey.

But the Kurds are just one part of the larger international coalition against ISIS. Several nations have signed on, but their commitment varies greatly. Some countries have merely condemned the militants while others have gone so far as to conduct airstrikes.

Albania has sent military supplies to the Iraqi government and Kurdish forces. Becky spoke to Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati to find out why his government joined the fight against a group operating mainly in Syria and Iraq.

We have covered a lot of the military developments in the global fight against ISIS. But, as many experts say, this is not a war limited to the battlefield. To defeat ISIS, you have to challenge the group's extremist ideology and their radical reading of Islam. That's what leading Islamic scholar Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayyah told Becky.

The eighth edition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival has kicked off and ahead of that Becky got a chance to sit down with Emirati filmmaker Ali Mostafa. His film, From A to B, will open the 10-day movie extravaganza. It is the first time a locally-produced film kicks of the event and for Ali that's a source of pride and a sign of the UAE's growing film industry.