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Friday, October 31, 2014

Kurdish peshmerga convoy heads towards Kobani to battle Islamic State

SURUC Turkey (Reuters) - A convoy of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces in Turkey headed on Friday towards the Syrian border where they were expected to help push back Islamic State insurgents encircling the mainly Kurdish border town of Kobani, a Reuters witness said. Peshmerga fighters in more than a dozen trucks and jeeps set off with 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; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Mark Heinrich) Read More http://ift.tt/1u1YPRO

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