Syrian Kurd exodus to Iraq raises prospect of cross-border action

BAGHDAD/PESHKHABOUR, Iraq (Reuters) - A sudden mass influx of 30,000 Kurdish refugees from Syria into Iraq increases the likelihood that Iraq's Kurdish region will act to protect its kin across the border, an adviser to Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said on Monday.

The United Nations said nearly 30,000 refugees had crossed in the past few days, making it one of the biggest single outward migrations of a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people and driven millions from their homes.