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 armored vehicles, from a holding point around 8 km (5 miles) from the border towards Kobani, which has been
besieged for more than 40 days. (Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Omer Berberoglu; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Dominic Evans)
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