SURUC Turkey (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces crossed from Turkey into Syria's besieged Kobani on Friday to help push back Islamic State insurgents encircling the mainly Kurdish town, a peshmerga fighter in the group told Reuters by telephone.
The peshmerga forces earlier set off in more than a dozen trucks and jeeps, escorted by armoured vehicles, from a holding point around 8 km (5 miles) from the border towards Kobani, which has been besieged for more than 40 days.
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