First Iraqi Kurdish forces enter Syria's Kobani -monitoring group
 

(Adds quote and detail) BEIRUT, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The first Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the beseiged Syrian town of Kobani through the border crossing with Turkey on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The British-based monitoring group said 10 fighters had moved in and the others were expected to enter the town, which has been under attack by Islamic State for more than a month, "within hours". A convoy of peshmerga fighters arrived close to the Turkish town of Suruc on Wednesday night, meeting up with others who had flown in earlier in the day. ...

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